> What you said to Debbie Duong sound intuitively right to me. I think > that most human intuition would be inferential rather than a simulation. > but it seems that higher primates store a huge amount of data on the > members of their clan - so my guess is that we do a lot of simulating of > the in-group. Maybe your comment about empathy throw intersting > light on this. If we simulate our in-group but use crude inferential > intuition for most of the outgroup (except favourite enemies that we > fixate on!!) then maybe that explains why we have so little empathy for > the outgroup (and can so easily treat them abominably).
Good point. And, simulating the in-group is easier for two reasons: 1) in-group members are similar to us, so we can use our self-models as initial guesses for modeling other in-group members ... whereas if we want to model out-group members, we need to do more learning from scratch 2) in-group is often smaller than the out-group: modeling a smaller range of individuals requires less computational effort Again i come to the conclusion that the root of all evil is not money, but rather limitations on compute power... ben ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
