Wisdom is Working with Frames (2/2)

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And frames as the sets of assumptions, ontologies, and attentional lenses we use to navigate the world. 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. In this part we sketch how we can become wiser by getting good at working with frames. Growing up, I struggled with intuiting social norms and taking others' perspectives. This led me to over-rely on naive empiricism, science, and propositional logic to make sense of the world and communicate. One funny consequence of this approach was my attempt to follow Descartes in rebuilding my worldview from a very simple axiom system. This had mixed results. I broke myself out when I encountered the fuzziness of machine learning, the limitations of formal systems via Gödel's incompleteness theorem, and the physical limits of math imposed by computation. These con

In Part 1 we looked at definitions of wisdom and arrived at a reasonably operationalizable one: Wisdom as adaptively working with frames. And frames as the sets of assumptions, ontologies, and attentional lenses we use to navigate the world. · October 9, 2024 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. In this part we sketch how we can become wiser by getting good at working with frames. Growing…

Wisdom is Working with Frames (2/2)

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