The Importance of Being Educable

Name: The Importance of Being Educable | A New Theory of Human Uniqueness
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A New Theory of Human Uniqueness

Leslie Valiant(Autor*in)

Princeton University Press

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Erschienen am 16. April 2024

272 Seiten

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Cover
Contents
Preface
1. The Civilization Enabler
Cleverness Is Not Enough
The Civilization Enabler
Knowledge Accumulation
A Computational Approach
Why Computation?
2. Where We Come From
Darwin's Challenge
The Brain
The Difficulty of Invention
Distinguishers, but Not Civilization Enablers
3. Where We Have Got To
Pervasiveness of Education
Education in the Large
Educability Is Different from IQ
4. Some Foundation Stones
Acquiring and Applying Belief Systems
Learning from Examples
Generalization
Large Memory
Symbolic Names
Teaching
Chaining
A Mind's Eye
The Rest of Cognition
5. Computation for Describing Natural Phenomena
Turing Computation
Probably Approximately Correct Learning
Robust Models of Computation
6. Integrative Learning
Putting Experiences Together
Augmenting Learning with Reasoning
Robust Logic
Knowledge as Rules
Tolerance of Inconsistency
Rules as Learned Classifiers
The Power of Learning
Chaining with Equivalences
Teaching by Example
Innate and Acquired Attributes
Imagination and Novelty
7. What Integrative Learning Does
Compounding Knowledge
Soundness of Chaining
World without Reason?
Modularity and Partial Information
Was Pavlov's Dog Right?
Exploiting Modularity
The Patchwork Tapestry
8. The Capability of Being Educable
The Crux
An Educable Learning System
More on Symbolic Names
Rules Acquired by Instruction
Scene Management
Belief Choice
9. Educability as a Model of Computation
Evolutionary Plausibility
The Model Is Explanatory
Teaching to Reason
Measures of Cognition
Universality
The Educability Model Has Robustness
10. Promoting Educability
Educability as an Individual Capacity
Educability of a Population
Measuring Educability
Long-Term Retention
11. Artificial Educability
Fear of Technology
The Imitation Game
Beyond the Imitation Game
AI
Large Language Models
Beyond Efficient Generalization
Integrative Learning Technology
Educable Technology
Natural versus Artificial
The Challenge of Teaching Materials
No Technological Singularity
12. Education: Some Questions
Education as a Right
The Study of Education
A Different Vantage Point
In the Classroom
Teaching Materials
Education and Propaganda
Propaganda Safety
Saturation
13. A Species Adrift
Human Sacrifice
At Sea
The Case of Isaac Newton
Belief Systems: Good and Bad
Science as a Belief System
The Scientific Revolution
Equality
Worldviews
Acknowledgments
Summary of Terminology
Notes
Index
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