Humans use natural abstractions

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Humans use natural abstractions

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The Natural Abstractions Hypothesis
. Humans are part of the set of general cognitive systems that learn some natural abstractions of the rather small, but discrete space of learnable abstractions.

Source: Wentworth, J. (2021) ‘Testing The Natural Abstraction Hypothesis: Project Intro’. Available at: https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/cy3BhHrGinZCp3LXE/testing-the-natural-abstraction-hypothesis-project-intro (Accessed: 20 March 2023).