As a naive person who took whatever I was told and said “ok, I believe this!”¹, when I read Defender’s “Geoffrey Hinton on developing your own framework for understanding reality” post, I said “ok, I guess this is all True and Correct!”
But actually, the quoted thing from Geoffrey is not perfect or complete (and like, of course, how could it be?)
And I think that realising this is a watershed moment for me, re: ORI. I’m taking the Wisdom of a Very Established Thinker and saying “uh dude, no, that looks wrong?”
His quote:

“Some people have a whole framework for understanding reality and when someone tells them something, they try and sort of figure out how that fits into their framework. If it doesn’t, they just reject it. That’s a very good strategy. ”

From my vantage point, that can actually be a very bad strategy!
I realised that it’s important to remember that Geoffrey is talking from a radically different place from where I am. Here’s a man in his 70s, who has a Nobel Prize. Here’s a man in his 20s, who has severe deficits in “thinking well”.
I come from a working class world, where people are very poorly educated. “Reject new information, and prioritise your own world model” is a fucking dreadful strategy in this world. In this world, your own world-model is dreadful, because you never learned the basics of thinking, logic, rhetoric, argument, math, etc. It’s actually a much more adaptive strategy to try on the wisdom passed down to you through the media, books etc, from Genuinely Educated People.

“On the other hand, people who try and incorporate whatever they’re told end up with a framework that’s sort of very fuzzy and sort of can believe everything and that’s useless.”

Yes, this is true. But it’s better to have a fuzzy, illogical, messy framework for reality, than nothing at all.
You lack the skill to prevent this from becoming spaghetti code in your mind. You lack the skills to be able to refactor this into something consistent. But it’s better than nothing. Much better!!

Boom! I am doing the thing!