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Not all of them are aphorisms. "Circle of competence" is closer to what you could call a "model", even if it is pretty trivial. I'm pretty convinced now that pa
by andrewflnr 7y ago
Not all of them are aphorisms. "Circle of competence" is closer to what you could call a "model", even if it is pretty trivial. I'm pretty convinced now that part of the problem with the Mental Models meme is that they aren't all the same kind of thing.
- jvanderbot 7y agoCircle of competence is a guiding principle of where to trust your models. It is not a model. How can I "query" the model to "predict" an outcome about my competence at a highly general level? I can't, but I can query a model of (e.g.,) an interviewer to see how he might respond to a joke, get a response, and then apply a high value of uncertainty to that response because it is outside my circle of competence (telling jokes is not something I'm good at). "Don't trust your unvetted models" is a better way of saying this.