Comment by brookst

Comment by brookst a day ago

7 replies

There are also two kinds of people - those who are objective enough to tell when it happens and those who will never even see when they’re outperformed because of their cognitive biases.

I give you a 2x2x2 matrix.

magicalhippo 17 hours ago

> I give you a 2x2x2 matrix.

That'd be a tensor, no?

  • sva_ 14 hours ago

    A rank-3 tensor, yes. Matrices are rank-2 tensors.

    • avs733 12 hours ago

      God I hated tensors in grad school. Give me a Taylor series any day.

      • dboreham 11 hours ago

        Everything that seems complicated is just a "fancy matrix".

kubb 21 hours ago

Sure, but if a person can find an easier way to do their job, they’ll usually do it. Usually the bias is towards less energy expenditure.

  • brookst 21 hours ago

    For many people, yes. For people who have their identity invested in being the smartest person in the room, life is considerably harder.

avs733 a day ago

I'm sure if we work hard enough we can add a meta-meta-cognition level. Cognition is just 2^n series of binary states right?