[HN Gopher] In a 'learning trap' experiment, adults leap conclus...
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       In a 'learning trap' experiment, adults leap conclusions while
       children explore
        
       Author : jkuria
       Score  : 22 points
       Date   : 2021-11-13 21:14 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | pleb_nz wrote:
       | I could see the benefit from both approaches. My guess is jumping
       | to conclusions has probably saved many a human ( and animal)
       | energy and lives throughout history.
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       | I also remember reading a research group managed to train adults
       | to learn like kids again. Can't seem to find it now, but maybe
       | it's not set in stone and we could benefit from both approaches
       | where needed in life.
        
         | hyperpallium2 wrote:
         | _" If there was one thing life had taught her it was that there
         | are times when you do not go back for your bag and other times
         | when you do. It had yet to teach her to distinguish between the
         | two types of occasion."_ - DNA
        
       | falcor84 wrote:
       | >Children gathered much more evidence than the adults and were
       | much better at learning. Most of the children did figure out the
       | right rule. However, they earned fewer stars than the grown-ups.
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       | For me, this sentence at the end breaks the whole argument down -
       | so the adult strategy was indeed more effective at the the thing
       | being optimized for!
       | 
       | The question then is - could they set this up such that kids
       | actually perform better than adults?
        
         | Jensson wrote:
         | Repeat it 1000 times and the better learning should start to
         | kick in. That kinda mimics life, you learn as a kid and the
         | execute as an adult.
        
       | mattdeboard wrote:
       | I think of it in terms of the brain's pattern-recognition
       | capacity:
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       | As we experience more of the world over time, the model of the
       | world we build internally gets more and more elaborate.
       | Eventually, we experience enough we can start noticing
       | metapatterns. Something like, "if something is bad, it usually
       | doesn't get better" is an example of a metapattern which seems
       | like it could be in play in this study.
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       | Of course, we lose out on some experiences, because that
       | heuristic is quite prone to false negatives. I think that's
       | basically what the experiment in the article illustrates, this
       | "lossy filter" in our brain's future-planner.
       | 
       | (I am making no claims about the physical structure of the
       | brain.)
        
         | hyperpallium2 wrote:
         | _" In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the
         | expert's mind there are few._" - Shunryu Suzuki
         | https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoshin
        
       | neonate wrote:
       | https://archive.md/53mxS
        
       | syberiyxx wrote:
       | Adults have established hierarchies in their lives. Children are
       | looking for them and looking for cracks.
        
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