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Yes, the world is more complicated than any description of it. No, that doesn't make heuristics useless. The trick is to understand that heuristics are approxi
by uoaei 2y ago
Yes, the world is more complicated than any description of it. No, that doesn't make heuristics useless.
The trick is to understand that heuristics are approximations and not to replace the territory with the map.
- agentultra 2y agoSome heuristics are better than others.
- towledev 2y agoYou’re selling your point short. In my time in management, I found that the commonplace psychological descriptors we use failed to adequately describe what I was seeing. Two employees may both be “detail-oriented,” but there are subcategories within that depending on where the motivation comes from and those subcategories behave differently. Some people want that A+, some people like their squares square and their circles round (and it gives them anxiety when they’re not). Those groups are different, and I don’t know what to call them. At bottom, there are ‘simple machines’ of psychology that, in combination with each other, produce behavioral traits at the top level. We don’t really have words for them, or at least not words I can think of for the ones I see.
- linguistbreaker 2y ago"all models are wrong, but some are useful" - George E Box