Well, it seems obvious to me (admittedly at risk of imputation or Dunning-Kruger) that we all have both modes in our repertoire. Maybe there are subsets of us who lean hard one way or the other. But I guess that just kicks the can down the road. Too much soldier ⇒ not recognizing when to switch to scout mode. And vice versa, like those pitiful truth-s[uc|ee]kers stuck in a conversation with a zero-sum logicbro.
It's error-correcting self-attention loops all the way down ... and up. And if you're not exercising your low/fast interrupts (capsaicin , yoga, LSD, whatever), then you're probably not exercising your high/slow interrupts (active listening, abandoning pet theories, etc.). The idea that we can strengthen the high/slow interrupts without also strengthening the low/fast ones seems fideistic to me ... like telekinesis or somesuch. Tangentially, I'm somewhat of a fan of Goertzel. But this worries me: Evidence for Psi: Thirteen Empirical Research Reports https://bookshop.org/books/evidence-for-psi-thirteen-empirical-research-reports/9780786478286 Maybe one of you has read it? I'm told it contains some fantastic nuggets about statistics, which makes me want a copy. And this video presents a good argument, regardless of the gist: How I learned to love pseudoscience https://youtu.be/bWV0XIn-rvY But I worry about my own ability to switch from scout to soldier ... which is why the right-wing morons I talk to at the pub don't immediately murder me. Once they get to know me, they don't love me anymore. On 10/14/21 3:29 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > Even with a scout mentality there is the problem of modeling the deck of > alternative scenarios that arise from uncertainty in a map. The tendency > to take imputed values for a set of unknown variables is a practical > cognitive resource limitation that one can acknowledge or fail to > acknowledge. To challenge a person’s gut feeling -- all those imputed > values -- and to observe the exasperation (even perceived persecution) that > may result from the challenge is how I distinguish scouts from soldiers. > There are surely some tactical benefits to soldiers running toward the enemy > with their bayonets to not spend a lot of time reflecting on how confident > they are that the person they are running toward is their enemy. > > From: Friam <friam-boun...@redfish.com> On Behalf Of Jon Zingale > Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2021 1:17 PM > To: friam@redfish.com > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] [dis]integrated > > > The Scout Mindset > > https://bookshop.org/books/the-scout-mindset-why-some-people-see-things-clearly-and-others-don-t/9780735217553 -- "Better to be slapped with the truth than kissed with a lie." ☤>$ uǝlƃ .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/
