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On IT Certifications, Job Interviews, and Epistemology

interviewing programmers

easier to measure

applies everywhere else too

Thought Experiment

Recall the smell of ammonia? How is it different from chlorine? If you'd never smelled either, would you know which is which?

Mathematical Archangel

Broad's Knowledge Argument

cat pee smelling like chlorine instead of ammonia

the discrepancy, the idea that this is unnatural is the experiential knowledge

context as a source of information

Management positions require learning aspects of Emotional Intelligence

it's possible to learn about EI w/out practice

learn about Aikido vs learn Aikido

default network vs task network

priests vs prophets

learn acting vs learn about acting

difficult/impossible to learn EI w/out practice

Motivation

Empathy

Social skill

Self regulation

Self awareness

When we learn lots, we get better at learning. Practice has got to be part of training.

learn through play

Emergent Design

mirror neurons (imagination?) allow us to imagine what it would be like applying theory

Validation against context

like in the immune system, there will be a record, an imprint from the trait

could there be an experience vaccine?

brain can passively & effortlessly assimilate, consolidate new information (and skills) if it receives immediate feedback

the difficulty we experience in learning

information formatting and interpreting

requires focus & quick access to information

analyze and compare to all previously stored data

then highlight the most salient associations, and archive rest

thrifty brain resists spending energy

incentivizing us to always look for more optimal solutions

seeing parallels to similar processes

truth, morals, beauty == it, we, I

hence fascination with invariants

they also affect real, ongoing processes in other domains

cognition from most basic to more complex

holons

math

evolution

DNA

biology, physics, chemistry

social interactions

Pi

it's exactly like the other experience, except that it's completely different

End of History illusion

people lacking experiential data from the context have to tax their brains harder because they are planning in multiple directions instead of recalling

can increasing our processing capacity allow us to replace experience

shortcut to mastery

already having the data will always be faster than having to compute or mine it

is arriving at a conclusion by oneself more valuable than learning it from an external source?

king has no clothes

I know, but I don't know that you know, and I don't know whether you know that I know

the process of arriving to that conclusion will be long forgotten, and only the idea of private knowledge will remain

feeling of ownership

feeling of advantage

I know that I know, but you don't know that I know because I came to it on my own

having the data doesn't mean understanding how to apply it

Chinese Room

we can create more accurate simulations

simultaneous recognition of that trait via multiple modalities awakens modes of behaviour and attitudes associated with each modality

e.g. cooking an omelette

smell, shape, look, sound, temperature, vibration

create an internal alphabet

use someone else's alphabet?

still need a point of reference to relate

e.g.

ammonia is to chlorine as grey-blue is to pinkish-blue

infinite regress - everything is like something else

like in compression algorithms

e.g. compare smells

qualia

cat pee vs swimming pool

"to know that you're there, you need an echo"

AI

embodied cognition

Empiricism

in theory

our knowledge about everything is indirect

in practice

asking for hands-on experience is practical only because the feedback provided by the context is essential, but could not be covered (duck,water) by theoretical instructions & recipes

dexterity in operating machinery/using tools

Broca area & tool use

projecting attributes of the process of making tools onto grammar, and back, to create objects and systems of objects because, since having been modeled on it, grammar follows rules of physical processes

fascination with invariants

tools can be virtual

abacus

people count faster by imagining an abacus

filters out individuals with incomplete experience

imagine instead of recalling the landscape of the territory they are heading into

type of map - in the head/in the hand