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the lazy genius that lets you survive without re-learning that fire burns every single time
means A broad statement or conclusion drawn from specific cases, applying a pattern observed in a few instances to many.
from From 'general,' which travels back through Old French 'general' to Latin 'generalis,' meaning 'relating to all or to a whole kind' — itself rooted in 'genus,' a 'kind, class, or race' (a cousin of 'gene,' 'genus,' and 'generate'). The verb 'generalize' built on it, and the noun 'generalization' followed, naming the act of stretching one truth to cover a whole genus of cases.
- brain default
- Neurons fire identically for similar stimuli automatically
- stereotype's cousin
- Same mental shortcut, wildly different ethics
- machine learning
- The whole goal: perform on unseen data
- logic's trap
- One counterexample destroys any universal claim
- science engine
- Every law is a generalization that survived testing
inductive reasoning fallacy — drawing conclusions about all swans being white after observing only white swans in europe, before black swans were discovered in australia in 1606