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Geoffrey Hinton on developing your own framework for understanding reality

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I love this clip of Geoffrey Hinton describing people who have “good intuition”. I think what he’s talking about is less about intuition and more about “people who have good epistemics”. People who have faith in their ability to find truth. I think it’s very similar to developing your own taste. People with refined/discerning taste don’t need someone else to tell them whether a piece of art is good or not. They can tell for themselves whether listening to a piece of music makes them feel something. They can see the answer for themselves. I think Hinton is describing the same thing, but for the process of truth finding. (here’s the clip, with full text below) I think it's partly they don't stand for nonsense. Here's a way to get bad intuitions: believe everything you're told. That's fatal. Some people have a whole framework for understanding reality and when someone tells them something, they try and sort of figure out how that fits into their framework. If it doesn't, they just reject

I love this clip of Geoffrey Hinton describing people who have “good intuition”. I think what he’s talking about is less about intuition and more about “people who have good epistemics”. People who have faith in their ability to find truth. I think it’s very similar to developing your own taste. People with refined/discerning taste don’t need someone else to tell them whether a piece of art is good or not. They can tell for themselves whether listening to a piece of music makes them feel something. They can see the answer for themselves. I think Hinton is describing the same thing, but for…

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