Wisdom is Working with Frames (1/2)

This post began with me mulling over how we might make AI not just more intelligent, but wiser. Wiser in a way that avoids large-scale errors and notices errors in framing. I think a lot about connecting traditional wisdom to science. We won’t be thinking much about AI though. It’ll be about a concrete definition of wisdom and how we can become wiser through it. Half-way through, my favorite cephalopod, the brilliant Octopusyarn joined me in this quest and we co-composted by sharing and selecting research and insights, then crafting separate essays out of them. This is mine, split into two parts. In Part 1, we’ll define wisdom and frames: I think wisdom is about being good at working with frames. By frame I mean something like a set of assumptions or heuristics, a way of looking at a problem. So being wise is about choosing the right frame one for each context, and noticing when they’re unhelpful. Building them up, tearing them down. In Part 2 of this essay, we’ll look at how we can be

This post began with me mulling over how we might make AI not just more intelligent, but wiser. Wiser in a way that avoids large-scale errors and notices errors in framing. I think a lot about connecting traditional wisdom to science. We won’t be thinking much about AI though. It’ll be about a concrete definition of wisdom and how we can become wiser through it. Half-way through, my favorite cephalopod, the brilliant Octopusyarn joined me in this quest and we co-composted by sharing and selecting research and insights, then crafting separate essays out of them. This is mine, split into two par