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What if human reasoning is anti-inductive? — LessWrong

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This post is going to discuss anti-inductive belief updating, perception, learning and reasoning (about hypotheses). Plus evidence of "anti-induction" in psychology. I think anti-induction may help to explain how humans reason. The overall point/conclusion of the post is described here. To see the difference between inductive and anti-inductive probabilistic reasoning, let's visit "weird worlds". In weird worlds important properties are "shared" between objects. I want to give an example. Let's say you're a tall person. In the normal world, your height doesn't tell much about my height. Our heights are not related. However, in the weird world you being tall may imply that: I want to give more examples to show the difference between reasoning methods in both worlds. Imagine two worlds. In the weird world, the property of intelligence is "shared" among beings. In the normal world, it is not "shared". You have a question "Are there many beings smarter than humans?". Then you encounter som

x What if human reasoning is anti-inductive? — LessWrong Rationality World Modeling Frontpage 4 What if human reasoning is anti-inductive? by Q Home 11th Oct 2022 16 min read 2 4 Can you help me with generalization of probabilistic reasoning? I need a generalization of probabilistic inference for "anti-inductive" reasoning. This post is going to discuss anti-inductive belief updating, perception, learning and reasoning (about hypotheses). Plus evidence of "anti-induction" in psychology. I think anti-induction may help to explain how humans reason. The overall point/conclusion of the post is de

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