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#102 Sendhil Mullainathan: The Chaos Inside Us
The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish
How to Overfit a New Idea
I think the first stage of learning is overfitting. I actually kind of lean into overfitting because there are ideas that have been so rehearsed they are oer activated to find any it's like being in a bad relationship, you're on edge about some things. So part of what you need to do is to just let them live for a bit. It's ok if they overfit. Because the goal of this mulling is not to get to accurate truth about the world. It's to practise this new idea and to let it be getting its own activation. Once it's big enough, it's, i think of it as a greenhouse. And there you have to trust all...
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