Book Review: What Makes Us Smart - by Amanuel Sahilu
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What makes us smart also makes us dumb
I. Inside You Are Two Biases In his book What Makes Us Smart, Gershman uses a Bayesian1 framework to sketch a uniquely textured view of cognition, a perspective which sees many “mistakes” in reasoning as perhaps inherent to general intelligences such as ours. These mistakes may not even be mistakes, Gershman argues. Instead, we could consider them the drawbacks of important biases that, while acting as effective guides in the long run, may lead us astray in contrived circumstances (like those set up by logicians and experimenters). There’s two kinds of these biases: approximation and…
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