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Map and Territory Flashcards

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What is rationality?

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Quality of thinking.

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What are the two subcomponents of rationality?

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Instrumental rationality and epistemic rationality.

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The purpose of rational thinking is to maximize the ________ between _________ and _________.

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Convergence, reality and belief.

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The purpose of rational decision making is to act on _________ to maximize ones chances of achieving their _________.

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Beliefs, goals.

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What is the Base Rate Fallacy?

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Base rate fallacy is when superficial factors take precedence over the Base Rate probabilities of something being true.

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What is a Base Rate in Probability?

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Base rates are unconditional probabilities of single events. Not taking into account any featural evidence.

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What is featural evidence?

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Featural evidence is when the presence of a feature changes the base rate probability of something being true.

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What is the Representative Heuristic?

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The Representative Heuristic is a mental shortcut that determines the probability of whether something belongs in a certain group based on whether it’s features resemble the features of others in that group.

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What fallacy does the Representative Heuristic lead to?

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Base Rate Neglect / Fallacy

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What is a Heuristic?

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A Heuristic is a mental shortcut to make quick decisions and judgements in the presence of complex information.

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What is the benefit of heuristics?

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The benefit is speed and consistency across a large number of cases.

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What are the 3 main pitfall of Heuristics?

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Heuristics can lead to large errors in judgement when misapplied. Heuristics can be easily manipulated.
Heuristics are hard to short circuit.

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What Cognitive Effect do Heuristics lead to?

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Cognitive Bias

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What is Confirmation Bias?

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Confirmation Bias is the tendency to interpret, search for and favor evidence that affirms current beliefs.

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What is Extension Neglect?

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Extension neglect is the tendency to ignore the size of a set, sample or population when the size is logically critical.

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What Heuristic is Extension Neglect caused by?

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Representative Heuristic

17
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What is the Peak-End Rule?

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We determine the pleasantness or unpleasantness based on the peak of the experience and the end rather than a weighted whole.

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What is Duration Neglect?

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The tendency to evaluate whether an experience was unpleasant based on the most extreme point of the experience and the end rather than a weighted average of the experience as a whole.

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What is the Sunk Cost Fallacy?

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Continuing the a behavior on the basis of previously invested resources.

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What are the 6 characteristics of System 1 Thinking? Clue: Speed, Effort, Frequency, Emotion, Calculated, Concious.

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Fast, automatic, frequent, emotional, stereotypic, unconscious.

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What are the 6 characteristics of System 1 Thinking? Clue: Speed, Effort, Frequency, Emotion, Calculated, Concious.

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Slow, effortful, infrequent, logical, calculating, conscious.

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What is the Anthropic Principle?

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A philosophical consideration that any data that humans collect about the nature of the universe is by necessity filtered by what humans can observe.

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Why is the Anthropic Principle a problem for the concept of rationality?

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What is considered objective reality to the human race may only be subjective at a species level due to the limitations of our conciousness. This puts objective reality into question.

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What is Baye’s Theorem?

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The law of probability to incorporate to information into prior probability calculations to find an updated probability calculation.

It is the basis of consistent rational reasoning under uncertainty.

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What is Decision Theory?

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Decision theory is the study of the principles and algorithms that lead making decisions that will lead to better outcomes that are inline with the agent’s goals.

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What is instrumental rationality?

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Instrumental Rationality is concerned with achieveing goals and taking actions that steer the future toward outcomes that are ranked higher on the priorities list.

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What is Epistemic Rationality concerned with?

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The formation of accurate or true beliefs about the world.

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What are the three critical components of Epistemic Rationality?

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  1. Updating ones beliefs in the light of new evidence.
  2. Mitigating cognitive biases.
  3. The examination of why you believe what you believe.
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What is Truth?

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Truth is the correspondence between ones beliefs about reality and reality.

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