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Good book on the basics of rationality. My notes below.
# Search-inference framework
> Thinking about actions, beliefs, and personal goals can all be described in terms of
a common framework, which asserts that thinking consists of search and inference.
We search for certain objects and then we make inferences from and about them.
## Search
> We search for three kinds of objects: possibilities, evidence, and goals.
1. Possibilities are possible answers to the original question, possible resolutions of ...more
# Search-inference framework
> Thinking about actions, beliefs, and personal goals can all be described in terms of
a common framework, which asserts that thinking consists of search and inference.
We search for certain objects and then we make inferences from and about them.
## Search
> We search for three kinds of objects: possibilities, evidence, and goals.
1. Possibilities are possible answers to the original question, possible resolutions of ...more
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