Tom Griffiths
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“The effort of retrieval [from long term memory] is a testament to how much you know. And the rarity of those lags is a testament to how well you’ve arranged it: keeping the most important things closes to hand.”
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“As a species, being constrained by the past makes us less perfectly adjusted to the present we know but helps keep us robust for the future we don't.”
― Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
― Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
“Intuitively, we think that rational decision-making means exhaustively enumerating our options, weighting each one carefully, and then selecting the best. But in practice, when the clock - or the ticker - is ticking, few aspects of decision-making (or of thinking more generally) are as important as this one: when to stop.”
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