How To Think Real Good | Meta-rationality

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Practical epistemology: heuristics for how to think about difficult things, particularly using formal methods.

Thinking about thinking I enjoy thinking about thinking. That’s one reason I spent a dozen years in artificial intelligence research. To make a computer think, you’d need to understand how you think. So AI research is a way of thinking about thinking that forces you to be specific. It calls your bluff if you think you understand thinking, but don’t. I thought a lot about how to do AI. 1 In 1988, I put together “ How to do research at the MIT AI Lab ,” a guide for graduate students. Although I edited it, it was a collaboration of many people. There are now many similar guides, some of them bett

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