Dunno what to call this. Blurred cognition? It’s not getting dumber, slower, or more forgetful, though that happens too of course. And I see it all around, nearly universally. Most “wisdom” is patterns of strategic compensation for this blurring.
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Wisdom = cognitive reading glasses for the blurred thinking of an aging mind. Like making bolder, rougher approximations and thereby getting to the right answer 80% of the time faster than more cautious younger people who can calculate faster to greater precision
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What people think of as experience beating raw cognitive ability is a case of a 45 year old System 1 (fast analogical reasoning) beating a 25 year old System 2 (slow logical reasoning) that’s faster on *both* S1 and S2 given enough data.
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This is Big Data wisdom of age. Compete where the young cant deploy their faster system 1s because they lack the data, and are forced to system 2. A sort of arbitrage.
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I blame technology for this more than aging. Harder to focus, easier to get distracted, and so on.
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Nope. Clearly aging in my case.
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