[Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World: Epstein, David: 9780735214484: Amazon.com: Books](https://www.amazon.com/Range-Generalists-Triumph-Specialized-World/dp/0735214484)
[[Books Index]]
[[26-06-2023]]
Kind and Wicked world learning environment
- specific repetitive domain.
Chunking
Human is better at strategy, machine can remember tactics.
Schwatz's paper - How not to teach people to discover rules.
Providing rewards for repetitive short-term success.
- AI and Therapy.
Don't get into a cognitive entrenchment.
- Creative achievers, breathe.
Generalist rules!
# Chapter 2 - How the wicked world was made
- Flynn effect - an increase in IQ each generation
- in the area of abstract, "extracting rules and patterns."
- Grouping tasks
- Villagers - based on real-life experiences.
- Farmers and students - Deduction, abstracts
- The more modern, the more abstract thinking, not direct experience.. based on language and abstract concepts.. knowledge can be transferred across domain and context
- -- broaden my range
- Fermi Problem - useful
- Can be applied.
- The ability to have conceptual reasoning skills that connect new ideas and work across contexts. Because the world is rapidly changing, we cannot learn from experience... To prepare for tomorrow.
# Chapter 3 - When Less of the Same is more
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