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> Almost like "It's too overwhelming for me to actually think this through, so I'm choosing to just not." At some point the algorithms in our head has to stop
by Jensson 4y ago
> Almost like "It's too overwhelming for me to actually think this through, so I'm choosing to just not."
At some point the algorithms in our head has to stop trying to think about things and instead just go with an option. That happens at different points for everyone, some stop thinking earlier while others basically never stops thinking about things so have a hard time getting started with anything.
I don't think that it is fair to say that one is better than the other, they are just different and are good at solving different kinds of problems.
- TheSpiceIsLife 4y agoOne would have thought this was obvious, but I guess some people just don't think too much about it. Traditionalism and conservatism are vital aspects of human nature, not necessarily for the individual, definitely for at least some larger groups.
- shrimp_emoji 4y agoYep. I would say a crucial cognitive skill is to realize when it's a good point to stop processing and apply a probability heuristic (e.g., "dogma"). When do you stop doing your own research about vaccines and trust doctors? When do you stop writing your own code and trust a software library? The world literally is too overwhelmingly complicated. It seems like the more you know about a facet of the world, the more complicated it starts to seem. At some point, you have appeal to specialization of authority and stop thinking or you'll be permanently DDoSed into inaction, make horrible mistakes, or both.