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| − | A '''cached thought''' is an answer that was arrived at by recalling the old conclusion, rather than performing the reasoning from scratch. Cached thoughts can | + | A '''cached thought''' is an answer that was arrived at by recalling the old conclusion, rather than performing the reasoning from scratch. |
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| + | Cached thoughts can be useful in saving computational resources at the cost of some memory load, and also at the risk of maintaining a belief when evidence should force an update. In particular, cached thoughts can result in a lack of creative approaches to problem-solving. | ||
What is generally called [[common sense]] is more or less a collection of cached thoughts. | What is generally called [[common sense]] is more or less a collection of cached thoughts. | ||
Revision as of 06:11, 26 February 2013
A cached thought is an answer that was arrived at by recalling the old conclusion, rather than performing the reasoning from scratch.
Cached thoughts can be useful in saving computational resources at the cost of some memory load, and also at the risk of maintaining a belief when evidence should force an update. In particular, cached thoughts can result in a lack of creative approaches to problem-solving.
What is generally called common sense is more or less a collection of cached thoughts.
See also
- Groupthink, Information cascade
- Status quo bias
- Semantic stopsign, Separate magisteria
- Rationalist taboo
Main post
Other posts
- How to Seem (and Be) Deep — Just find ways of violating cached expectations.
- The Virtue of Narrowness and Original Seeing — One way to fight cached patterns of thought is to focus on precise concepts.
- Cached Procrastination by jimrandomh
- Cached Selves by Anna Salamon and Steve Rayhawk
