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Jev in 25 Lines of Python

691 points · 212 comments · bashbjorn

  1. alun · · focus · HN ↗
    The one thing I can't wrap my head around with Jev is why they're trying to create that "System One" narrative.

    In real life, a human doesn't do classification tasks with the System One part of their brain, they use System Two. So by definition what Jev does isn't System One thinking.

    If anything, regular programming that automatically executes based on logic, without requiring "thinking" would be "System One".

    1. orsorna · · focus · HN ↗
      Oh, I thought it was some weird branding thing. So then I looked it up.

      "System One" and "System Two" were coined in some pop science book...so back to its usage being a marketing ploy.

      1. Matticus_Rex · · focus · HN ↗
        They were coined in the extremely influential foundational research the "pop science book" was based on, but that doesn't make it a marketing ploy; System 1 is very fast non-verbal subconscious heuristic operation, and a lot of our brain's classification takes place at that stage. Anyone familiar with the usage immediately had clear ideas about how it'd ideally be used (e.g. heuristics that reduce search space, manage context elements dynamically, etc) vs not (e.g. as a 1:1 replacement for something that could already be easily solved with a classifier).
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