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Scott Young - Ultralearning
Dwarkesh Podcast
The Principle of Intuition in Transfer Learning
The problem with the transfer idea is that when we talk about learning skills, we tend to use fairly general labels for things. To actually perform those skills quite well, you have to something very, very precise. And so it seems to be a general feature of the brain that it learns things quite specifically. It's not just like a defect, but like, that's why we're smart, is because we can make very fine grained discriminations between things.
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