heuristics

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McCarthy's 1973 Lighthill review located AI's central difficulty in knowledge representation, faulting Lighthill's 'non-standard' use of 'heuristics'

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-22 · lighthill-report, mccarthy, knowledge-representation, heuristics, symbolic-ai
Brighton's 2006 cross-validation reanalysis reversed Chater & Oaksford's take-the-best result, turning a direct terminological dispute into an empirical one

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-01 · rationality, ecological-rationality, rational-analysis, take-the-best, heuristics
Gigerenzer's camp defines ecological rationality as 'not optimization,' positioning it against the Bayesian-optimization family rational analysis belongs to

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-01 · rationality, ecological-rationality, rational-analysis, bayesian-cognition, gigerenzer
Capture: Are Gigerenzer's ecological rationality and Oaksford & Chater's rational analysis compatible or contested frameworks?

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-31 · rationality, ecological-rationality, rational-analysis, bayesian-cognition, gigerenzer