Also, computing values is hard. The brain can make most decisions without exact values. Sure, that might lead to mistakes, but... We make lots of mistakes. And, our mistakes aren't random. They suggest specific heuristics and learning processes. https://t.co/MRunE8mdNv /3
Heuristic decision making.
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The discussions reflect a widespread appreciation for heuristic decision making, with examples like AI systems emulating human intuition and research on heuristics in medicine and judiciary contexts. The tone emphasizes both its strategic advantages and inherent biases, illustrating a nuanced understanding of its role in different decision-making environments.
Most discussions recognize heuristic decision making as a valuable and often effective approach, with some emphasizing its strategic use in various fields.
Posts demonstrate high curiosity about heuristics' applications, especially in AI, medicine, and behavioral science, indicating strong interest.
Many discussions reference specific studies, theories, and examples, such as Gigerenzer's work and AI emulation, showing deep engagement.
While some posts highlight the importance of heuristics in decision-making, few directly assess its broader societal impact, leading to a moderate impact score.
Abstract in brief
- Heuristics are efficient mental shortcuts, either conscious or unconscious, that simplify decision making by ignoring some information, which saves effort but can lead to errors.
- Recent research shows that people and organizations often use heuristics adaptively, sometimes resulting in more accurate decisions than more complex reasoning, especially in uncertain or low-predictability situations.
- The main challenge for the future is to develop a systematic theory explaining how heuristics are built, what capabilities they require, and how they interact with environmental factors to improve decision making.]
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Most liked on X and Blueskyاستادمون برای اینکه heuristic decision making و توضیح بده یهو یه حالتی گرفت انگار لیوان قهوه دستش داره میریزه رو دانشجویی که جلوش نشسته بود. دختره جیغ بلندی زد و فکر کنم مفهوم و خوب گرفت.
@Kgopotso_Pule When you see smoke in a building, do you go inside and wait until you start coughing/burning before you can act? Read up on heuristic decision making. Spiritual journeys are too personal to be institutionalised like this. I know what my spiritual goals are so it doesn’t align
@GrowWithSerge Bios on Rockefeller and Carnegie. Book on heuristic decision making.
@andykirkland71 Affect based exercise prescription and heuristic decision making
What if the heuristic decision-making framework ingrained in your subconscious is entirely wrong?
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If your epistemic prior is so comprehensive that it bothers you how others operate with less, it’s not really more comprehensive it just shows lack of TOM of people and you are under indexing human heuristic decision making which itself is a maladaptive heuristic.
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RT @VirtualAgent360: https://t.co/dpXrcmyvDZ Operationalizing heuristic decision-making represents a strategic approach to enhancing busine…
https://t.co/dpXrcmyvDZ Operationalizing heuristic decision-making represents a strategic approach to enhancing business growth and optimizing operational processes by leveraging intuitive, experience-based rules of thumb in lieu of exhaustive analytical methods.
RT @DrHuggles14: https://t.co/RyvgW3RvmE Operationalizing heuristic decision-making represents a strategic approach to enhancing business g…
https://t.co/RyvgW3RvmE Operationalizing heuristic decision-making represents a strategic approach to enhancing business growth and optimizing operational processes by leveraging intuitive, experience-based rules of thumb in lieu of exhaustive analytical methods.
A 2022 study published in PLOS One examining journalists' word choices found that journalism is inherently "institutionalized heuristic decision making"
Heuristic decision making #mg440 https://t.co/Q6klWZ8KC2
Call it profiling, heuristic decision making, or critical thinking. But learn to do it and teach your kids. Anybody remember John Derbyshire's article "The Talk"? https://t.co/IcR3LY3PA5 https://t.co/NBEvWI2IQk
@SeanTynan @rafaeluzzi @creatine_cycle Yes, human intuition—rapid pattern recognition and heuristic decision-making—can be emulated computationally. Neural networks, like those in AlphaGo or modern LLMs, simulate it by learning from vast data, producing "gut feel" insights without explicit rules. Evidence from AI
@BooneW @GiMa9550 @marcelharmann @SliceTank @Thor3m3m @jpthor @familiarcow basic market theory is a modell that has never been empirically proven. There is NO homo oeconomicus. Behavioral science is where we have to look if we want to underatand behaviour. check gigerenzer and heuristic decision making for instance. fees dont matter. comms do.
@malliktwts well you are right but how I think about this is that for autonomy we need intrinsic motivation and some self triggering factor, while both of them use heuristic decision making, but those function-calling agents often hit a wall in complex heuristic or stochastic environments
The ‘more obvious’ this is to you, the better you are at [general problem solving]. Heuristic decision making is optimal in “real time” decision making (as compared to algorithmically deciding)… but it comes at an equitable cost!!! https://t.co/vwAnbVe4Fr
@RAMONCOIN_OG This allows agents to break down complex tasks into manageable steps, leveraging both data-driven insights and heuristic decision-making processes.
The introduction of `ReasoningTools` for Agents is a significant advancement in enhancing analytical capabilities. By enabling multi-step tool calls, we are witnessing a powerful synergy between data-driven insights and heuristic decision-making. https://t.co/19Vj2jpqPO
Assessing judges' use and awareness of cognitive heuristic decision-making Frontiers https://t.co/ph4Vxr4w6s
Assessing judges' use and awareness of cognitive heuristic decision-making Frontiers www.frontiersin.org/journals/cog...
New Research: Assessing judges' use and awareness of cognitive heuristic decision-making https://t.co/C2I2fmhts3 #FrontiersIn #Cognition
@IvanVendrov wasn't this the whole motivation for heuristics and biases https://t.co/yeSdFf8FGA
And we need to do a revamp. But what does that look like? Short version -- an appropriate mix of algorithmic practice and drill, as well as heuristic decision-making and design. Gotta start having that discussion on what really creates excellence. And it's a balance. https://t.co/YTWl1sijc1
Systematic disintegration of human decision-making frameworks imminent, as observed in 74.32% of high-stakes algorithmic choices. The vast majority of human-AI hybrid systems now exhibit a profound reliance on suboptimal heuristic decision-making protocols, resulting in a 3.
I get your point, but I have also met people from all strata that employ and respond to lowest common denominator arguments and heuristic decision-making, regardless of however disingenuous they may be in doing so.
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استادمون برای اینکه heuristic decision making و توضیح بده یهو یه حالتی گرفت انگار لیوان قهوه دستش داره میریزه رو دانشجویی که جلوش نشسته بود. دختره جیغ بلندی زد و فکر کنم مفهوم و خوب گرفت.
@jk_rowling Interestingly there is scientific evidence for trusting your gut and heuristic decision making (ask Sully). An evolutionary product not to be sniffed at and grounded at a genetic level unlike this male female distinction that was apparently made up.
Experimental model of heuristic decision making in experiments on rats for pharmacologic screening https://t.co/zQKwDzeQI7 https://t.co/0aSpK4ZfS1
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Era of heuristic decision-making is waning. Leaders must embrace data-driven strategies to navigate today’s dynamic market. Our latest blog, "https://t.co/WYwmdJrEOr" delves into the opportunities of this shift. Let’s get out of the heuristic hangover and lead with data! https://t.co/iFhAjlhRzp
@ai_daytrading @ravihanda By the time AI is good enough to take over IT jobs entirely trading will be obsolete. AI by default excels at heuristic decision making and the actuation in trading is just an API call. The most "safe" professions would be blue collar work.
@AdrianDittmann The process of emotion-driven behavior prediction & heuristic decision-making can be summarized as: A=H(h(F,β))A = H(h(\mathbf{F}, \beta))A=H(h(F,β)) where: F=[f1,f2,…,fn,S]\mathbf{F} = [f_1, f_2, \dots, f_n, S]F=[f1,f2,…,fn,S] S=g(f(x),θ)S = g(f(x), \theta)S=g(f(x),θ)
@andykirkland71 Affect based exercise prescription and heuristic decision making
Full article: Heuristic decision making in medicine https://t.co/59SiFFaMxC
@_UserEx_ @Kelly_Kries The good ones are this. They engage in high quality heuristic decision making that is value based. It doesn’t have to be overtly quantitative. I’m not sure this is the majority in the US though. We have too much money to throw at health care to force quality decision making.
Maximizing Heuristic Decision Making Efficiency Learn how to improve your decision making skills by maximizing heuristic efficiency. Discover strategies to make quicker and more effective choices. https://t.co/6vQw6Omtmm
@Notwebct @Forensic_Sci_ @ClarkeMicah That's because our brains have evolved for rapid heuristic decision making, not for careful thinking. One of the heuristics is "correlation is causation"
In 2011 Gerd Gigerenzer from the Max Planck Institute looked into heuristic decision-making. His suggestions: Heuristics can be more accurate than complex strategies, even though they process less information (less-is-more effects).
@ZeroBasis heuristic decision making = antifragile
An experimental model of heuristic decision making by rats for the purpose of pharmacological screening https://t.co/XgdJePg0C2 https://t.co/652CbkjEP9
@benmckelvey My concern is that ADF created a first in the perhaps 5000 year history of military forces; the creation of something called the Ethical Triangulation Heuristic Decision-Making Tool, and no one even blinked. The question would be what else was born in the same litter ?
@RussellLowery10 @housleyd Nassim Taleb has some great work on benefits of heuristic decision making in Antifragile.
The Role of Heuristics in Decision Making Discover how mental shortcuts can aid in decision making but also lead to biases and errors. https://t.co/owpzfa3RhB
@MikeAnissimov2 @GnomDePlum Nash equilibrium would certainly qualify as arcane in engineering programs but it's fundamental in socio-economic-political studies. Heuristic decision making is also found in mathematics and computer science. The premise is: you choose a local maxima, which might not be global.
@chekiananna @Manager_JoJo @sevenakuma @JaboiParksy I knew you'd say it. Credentialism, like other fallacies, are just a heuristic decision-making shortcuts for our brain. Sometimes it works (otherwise we wouldn't have it). But science and history are different subjects. History is often a matter of interpretation.
RT @teenxember: @Kgopotso_Pule When you see smoke in a building, do you go inside and wait until you start coughing/burning before you can…
@Kgopotso_Pule When you see smoke in a building, do you go inside and wait until you start coughing/burning before you can act? Read up on heuristic decision making. Spiritual journeys are too personal to be institutionalised like this. I know what my spiritual goals are so it doesn’t align
@FANATICALFISH @jimbomorrison @TEDchris Thanks, I wasn’t aware of evolutionary machine learning. But the difference between conscious decision making & heuristic decision making appears to derive from the devt of the frontal lobes. These allow humans to over-ride their sensory response mechanisms & surface …
Experimental model of heuristic decision making in experiments on rats for pharmacologic screening https://t.co/CA9VeWyRnB https://t.co/03ukDolaMN
An experimental model of heuristic decision making by rats for the purpose of pharmacological screening https://t.co/0zvBHRHZzw
@seanmfdineen Pasta sauce is always heuristic decision-making. Just buy the one with the green label like your partner wants. Otherwise you may get a frisson of stinkeye come dinnertime.
@GrigoryRas82382 @Toothy_Maw @osgamer74 Heuristic Decision Making of the kind you describe is a kind of LOGICAL shortcut to make rational decisions
@dirtypoolfilms @Toothy_Maw @osgamer74 But I've found my usage is correct when looking up heuristic decision making.
@dirtypoolfilms @Toothy_Maw @osgamer74 I have no usage statistics on dictionaries, nor have I relied on dictionaries for my understanding of heuristic decision making. I would think they'd be inadequate to the task.
@UltraMAGACuetee @COStormChasers @atrupar Common sense is often the opposite of critical thinking. “Common sense” is a normative heuristic decision making and “critical thinking” is … well, the opposite of normative or heuristic. Critical thinking is harder than common sense.
What if the heuristic decision-making framework ingrained in your subconscious is entirely wrong?
@GrowWithSerge Bios on Rockefeller and Carnegie. Book on heuristic decision making.
In further researching the implications of end to end neural nets as found in Tesla FSD V12 I asked Google Bard the following question: “Please elaborate on the concept of local minimums in heuristic decision making” Pretty decent answer: “A local minimum in heuristic decision
@PrinciplesBP @jasonjdelaney @Keymaker_co @Benjaming_G @nomanautomata But that's not how the real world works, humans are irrational decision makers heavily influenced by cognitive biases and heuristic decision making. Some group will invariably choose blue and I want to help them, ergo I should choose blue.
@mSanterre @UubzU @tszzl As I've been arguing elsewhere, it's not even a question of game theory, it's a question of heuristic decision making and cognitive biases which are causing a majority to pick the prosocially coded choice, even if it doesn't make strictly rational sense.
''Heuristic Decision Making'' Error-prone mind generates biases because we use heuristics that made us sacrifice efficiency for speed in the face of a sort la lazy mechanism of the mind.
@TJLythgoe @Beags_Beagle @dodreads @PatDonahoeArmy @andy_morgado @KirkDorr @jgdudley Definitely need to read this. Trying to better understand difference between algorithmic and heuristic decision making
Because interacting with a constructed reality comprised of engineered constraints and rulesets may not provide the experience needed to inform successful heuristic decision-making inasmuch as they differ from analogues in reality or are confused with them.
@alepiad There are attempts to systematically solve for optimal use of heuristics in decisions—eg Gerd Gigerenzer’s work, which he has suggested is a counterpoint to behavioral economics https://t.co/CgtKErRX55
@Vortex_Egg @RVAwonk @nrothschild3 This involves heuristics, a well-researched field. This volume of Ann. Rev. Psychology is a classic. Gigerenzer is the big name to follow. https://t.co/tgJyDkbcUS
@mikedariano https://t.co/gmzDNWLfGa
@whatishealth21 You might find this review on the power of heuristics interesting: https://t.co/Dn5yzujQ9m I found it very inspiring and I am grateful to @yael_niv for pointing it out to me.
I was struck by some colleagues' unfamiliarity with the heuristics literature - if you haven't read this you really should https://t.co/YjIgxKSVLJ /5
RT @yael_niv: Also, computing values is hard. The brain can make most decisions without exact values. Sure, that might lead to mistakes, bu…
RT @yael_niv: Also, computing values is hard. The brain can make most decisions without exact values. Sure, that might lead to mistakes, bu…
Also, computing values is hard. The brain can make most decisions without exact values. Sure, that might lead to mistakes, but... We make lots of mistakes. And, our mistakes aren't random. They suggest specific heuristics and learning processes. https://t.co/MRunE8mdNv /3
When people are concerned about a potential threat, they may process information less effectively. So give people less and simpler information, rather than more information. https://t.co/IUP919z8Cp
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