mattnewport comments on Applying utility functions to humans considered harmful - Less Wrong

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Comment author: mattnewport 04 February 2010 06:24:12PM 2 points [-]

Complex yes, chaotic I doubt. I'm reasonably confident that there is some kind of meaningful pattern to attentional shifts that is correlated with features of the environment and that is adaptive to improve outcomes in our evolutionary environment. Randomness in this model reflects a lack of sufficient information about the environment or the process that drives attention rather than a belief that attention shifts do not have a meaningful correlation with the environment.