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Tasks were thinking makes human worse > Three such cases are implicit statistical learning, visual recognition, and classifying with patterns containing except
by oatsandsugar 2y ago
Tasks were thinking makes human worse
> Three such cases are implicit statistical learning, visual recognition, and classifying with patterns containing exceptions.
Fascinating that our lizard brains are better at implicit statistical reasoning
- Dilettante_ 2y agoWell, by definition, thinking is always explicit reasoning, no? And I'd hazard a guess that a well-thought through Fermi Estimation beats lizard-brain eyeballing every time, it's just that in the inbetween space the two interfere unfavourably.
- YetAnotherNick 2y agoMy guess would be no. I have terrible face recognition ability and I can look into face for hour and still other people could easily beat me in less than a second.(I am assuming "well-thought through Fermi Estimation" would be similar for me and others in this case).
- mjcohen 2y agoLook into a disease called faceblindness (there is a fancy name I forget).
- Terr_ 2y ago> Well, by definition, thinking is always explicit reasoning, no? That doesn't feel right to me. (Heh, accidentally appropriate word choice.) There are a lot of tasks we do that are arguably "thinking" yet don't involve an internal "Oh, hey, I'm gonna solve this problem, I'm thinking right now." For example, imagine you're at a park, and someone is feeding the ducks. Another person walks up behind them and sucker-punches them into the pond. It should be almost a reflex [0] that you'll conclude "the puncher is bad" and "the person in the water needs help" without explicitly reasoning out. I think that task qualifies as "thinking", especially since it involves some kind of theory-of-mind about those other humans. [0] An exception might be someone with a sociopathic disability, who would have to think more-explicitly to realize what reaction is expected of them.
- brewii 2y agoThink about how fast you’re able to determine the exact trajectory of a ball and location to place your hand to catch a ball using your lizard brain.
- asah 2y agoyou mean like pingpong? https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/08/man-vs-machine-deepminds-new-robot-serves-up-a-table-tennis-triumph/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/08/man-v...
- dools 2y agoBender: Now Wireless Joe Jackson, there was a blern-hitting machine! Leela: Exactly! He was a machine designed to hit blerns!
- taeric 2y agoThis isn't some innate ability that people have. As evidenced by how bad my kids are at catching things. :D That said, I think this is a good example. We call it "muscle memory" in that you are good at what you have trained at. Change a parameter in it, though, and your execution will almost certainly suffer.
- skrtskrt 2y agoI mean even people that are "bad at catching things" are still getting ridiculously close to catching it - getting hands to the right area probably within well under a second of the right timing - without being taught anything in particular about how a ball moves through the air.
- taeric 2y agoUh.... have you been around kids? It will take several absurd misses before they even start to respond to a ball in flight.
- daft_pink 2y agothis is exactly what I was looking for. tasks where I should not think and just trust my gut.