SoullessAutomaton comments on Hardened Problems Make Brittle Models - Less Wrong

51 Post author: cousin_it 06 May 2009 06:31PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (40)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: SoullessAutomaton 07 May 2009 10:14:53AM 0 points [-]

Conversely, a systematic account of things that are too trivial to rationalize and best left to our unconscious would be helpful.

This is only helpful if the subconscious reaction is reasonably good. Finding a way to improve the heuristics applied by the subconscious mind would be ideal for this type of thing.