/single-responsibility-principle-for-the-human-mind/ More patient than death. Wed, 03 Apr 2019 05:10:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.2 /single-responsibility-principle-for-the-human-mind/#comment-56 Fri, 27 Oct 2017 02:56:08 +0000 /?p=65#comment-56 Part of my account of why never in practice self-deceive in order to get the best consequences, is: better to optimize separately having true beliefs and doing good things with beliefs than just doing-good-things with what the intermediate beliefs are as a free parameter. Because of the usual reason to separate modules. So that there is a place to put all the learning. So that you can finish off in less time a sub-part of the problem of designing the system and reduce the state space you’re exploring while still leaving yourself enough freedom to finish optimally.

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