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Meta-rationality: finding the pattern


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2021 Jun 6, 11:59am   320 views  5 comments

by Patrick   ➕follow (55)   💰tip   ignore  

https://metarationality.com/bongard-meta-rationality

In a Bongard problem, you have to figure out what the rule is. You are given twelve specific images, and the result of applying the rule to each. (The rule assigns an image to either the left or right group.) Once you have discovered the rule, applying it to new images would be trivial.




And many more such problems:

http://www.foundalis.com/res/bps/bpidx.htm

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1   Ceffer   2021 Jun 7, 9:42am  

Is this more evil white man hoodoo?
2   Tenpoundbass   2021 Jun 7, 10:00am  

The real world application of this, would only lead to dangerous assumptions.
There is no practical application for this, it is like something Dinner for Schmucks invitees would engage in.
3   Ceffer   2021 Jun 7, 11:00am  

Rationality is for people who don't believe free shit should grow on trees.
4   Patrick   2021 Jun 7, 1:17pm  

Right, that one was too easy, but that was the easiest one. They get pretty damn hard later in the article, like this one:




The point of the article is there are some intuitive aspects to rationality which cannot be reduced to algorithms.
5   Patrick   2021 Jun 7, 3:57pm  

From the article:

In the left group of the second one, the points are spaced equidistantly on the horizontal axis; in the right group, they are equidistant vertically.


https://metarationality.com/bongard-meta-rationality#fn_1

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