Brihaspati comments on Your inner Google - Less Wrong

101 Post author: PhilGoetz 16 September 2011 06:56AM

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Comment author: Brihaspati 16 September 2011 05:33:40AM 3 points [-]

"All that your brain does when you ask it a question is hit "search" and return the first hit it finds" is saying roughly the same thing that Stanovich and other researchers have said about 'default to Type 1 processing', as explained recently in this post.

Comment author: [deleted] 23 September 2011 03:07:15PM 1 point [-]

"This post cites sources supporting its specific claim" is not the same thing as "this post is likely to remind its readers of a source that made roughly the same point". As it is, the post is mostly a bunch of information with no support at all, apart from anecdotes that may come to the reader's mind. I see no reason to think that the brain actually works as the post says it works.

The post does contain a useful piece of advice, though: "instead of asking yourself why a problem exists, ask yourself how to fix the problem", or, more generally, "instead of asking questions that yield useless answers, ask questions that yield useful ones".