Re: [agi] [Science Daily] Our Unconscious Brain Makes The Best Decisions Possible

2009-01-02 Thread Jim Bromer
On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Jim Bromer jimbro...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Richard Loosemore r...@lightlink.com wrote: My friend Mike Oaksford in the UK has written several papers giving a higher level cognitive theory that says that people are, in fact, doing

Re: [agi] [Science Daily] Our Unconscious Brain Makes The Best Decisions Possible

2009-01-02 Thread Jim Bromer
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Jim Bromer jimbro...@gmail.com wrote: If extensive tests showed that people overwhelmingly made judgments that were Bayesianesque then this conjecture would be important. The problem is, that since the numerous possible influences of previous learning has to

Re: [agi] [Science Daily] Our Unconscious Brain Makes The Best Decisions Possible

2009-01-01 Thread Jim Bromer
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Richard Loosemore r...@lightlink.com wrote: My friend Mike Oaksford in the UK has written several papers giving a higher level cognitive theory that says that people are, in fact, doing something like bayesian estimation when then make judgments. In fact,

Re: [agi] [Science Daily] Our Unconscious Brain Makes The Best Decisions Possible

2009-01-01 Thread Richard Loosemore
Jim Bromer wrote: On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Richard Loosemore r...@lightlink.com wrote: My friend Mike Oaksford in the UK has written several papers giving a higher level cognitive theory that says that people are, in fact, doing something like bayesian estimation when then make

Re: [agi] [Science Daily] Our Unconscious Brain Makes The Best Decisions Possible

2008-12-30 Thread Vladimir Nesov
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 12:44 AM, Kaj Sotala xue...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 10:15 PM, Lukasz Stafiniak lukst...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081224215542.htm Nothing surprising ;-) So they have a result saying that we're good at

[agi] [Science Daily] Our Unconscious Brain Makes The Best Decisions Possible

2008-12-29 Thread Lukasz Stafiniak
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081224215542.htm Nothing surprising ;-) --- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription:

Re: [agi] [Science Daily] Our Unconscious Brain Makes The Best Decisions Possible

2008-12-29 Thread Richard Loosemore
Lukasz Stafiniak wrote: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081224215542.htm Nothing surprising ;-) Nothing surprising?!! 8-) Don't say that too loudly, Yudkowsky might hear you. :-) The article is a bit naughty when it says, of Tversky and Kahnemann, that ...this has become

Re: [agi] [Science Daily] Our Unconscious Brain Makes The Best Decisions Possible

2008-12-29 Thread Kaj Sotala
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 10:15 PM, Lukasz Stafiniak lukst...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081224215542.htm Nothing surprising ;-) So they have a result saying that we're good at subconsciously estimating the direction in which dots on a screen are moving in.

Re: [agi] [Science Daily] Our Unconscious Brain Makes The Best Decisions Possible

2008-12-29 Thread Matt Mahoney
be of interest... http://www.sl4.org/archive/0608/15895.html http://www.sl4.org/archive/0608/15928.html -- Matt Mahoney, matmaho...@yahoo.com From: Richard Loosemore r...@lightlink.com Subject: Re: [agi] [Science Daily] Our Unconscious Brain Makes The Best Decisions Possible To: agi@v2