Can Learning Make You Dumb? Yes.
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- Опубліковано 30 лип 2024
- I’m an idiot -- and you should be, too. Sometimes.
Thinking is hard, and thinking with a free, open mind might be the hardest thing of all. The Einstellung Effect can create cognitive illusions that blind us to different points of view. It prevents us from seeing simpler solutions or alternative ways to solve a problem. And the more we know about a given topic, the stronger the Einstellung Effect can be.
Psychology, math, and every other field is subject to Einstellung, and it’s why heroes often appear from completely different disciplines. Because a fresh set of eyes isn’t bound by a given set of knowledge, they see something in a brand new light. What’s impossible to trained professionals can be obvious to someone who’s inexperienced.
The Einstellung Effect might be the ultimate psychological paradox: the more we know, the stupider we can be. And the stupider we are, the more we can know.
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“Making Use of Data” (2013). Jeremy Zasowski, 3M Inside Angle: www.3mhisinsideangle.com/blog...
“Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart” (1999). Gigerenzer, Todd, and ABC Research Group: ia802301.us.archive.org/17/it...
“Discovering Psychological Mechanisms for Solving a Tenacious Brainteaser” (2003). Wang and Krauss: usd-apps.usd.edu/xtwanglab/Pap...
“The Knowledge Paradox: Why Knowing More is Knowing Less” (2017). Burlando: arxiv.org/abs/1702.07227#:~:t....
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this is my favourite thumbnail on youtube, by far
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Ah yes the high quality animator
I know its been 6 months but I love you're content.
Oh God. It's you.
@Jorge Penuela *everything, nightmares everywhere, never ending. I don't know what reality is any more*
*Please save me*
This is why wisdom and intelligence are different stats
And intelligence is not a single stat, too
@@Anankin12 what?
@@kkTeaz Intelligence is divided in multiple stats, you need to level up different classes of intelligence to achieve intelligence bonuses in different areas
that's a start .. now find specific studies in generalities : )
@@Anankin12 Is your life a video game?
It’s not about getting “too smart”, it’s about you getting your mind fixed on one idea and missing others.
Exactly!
I saw the efficient answers too, but I also have done a ton of sorting algorithms, so I understand the principles behind it.
Thank you,
Gramarly would be proud.
@@GabrielsEpicLifeofGoals lol
This is why "beginner's luck" is a thing. Beginners look for new ways to solve problems, while experts rely on experiences that may not be perfect.
Yoo you're right
wow ive never thought of that
no beginners who are lucky keep at it while beginners who lose quit, so beginners luck refers to the beginners who are lucky at first but fail later. everyone fails eventually
In a multiplayer strategic game, a beginner will apply such a different and original strategy, that mid experienced players won't have patterns in place to respond to it most effectively and can disrupt their strategy. However a higher experienced player has seen it all, including beginners strange strategies and will win on those, too
Yeah and that's why most professional players lose against the loose cannons. Because they can't read their actions. 🤣
“The human brain is the greatest computer ever created”
- Human Brain
This is like that Obama giving himself a medal meme
The Human Brain: "The Human Brain"
- The Human Brain
69 likes i aint ruining it
@@cheezyej579 good. But some monster ruined it...
@@fritheaxolotl27527 replied^2 by a human brain.
My answer on the survivors was: “just ask the survivors where they want to be buried”. then he said survivors don’t get buried. oh shit i forgot
My mind was thinking they crashed on an unfamiliar planet... they need to get underground for some reason; like to hide or find shelter. We don’t know anything about this planet 🤣
That's the Einstellung Effect for you!
They can still be buried to cover up the rather suspicious plane crash.
They weren't buried, they were cremated. They might have survived the crash but they can't survive the jet fuel inferno.
Certain countries would probably have something to say about that 🤔
When I was a kid my grandmother teased my cousins and I by asking if any of us could "stick out our tongues and touch our elbows?" After we all went through contortions trying to touch our elbows with our tongues ... and failed, she stuck out her tongue and touched her elbow WITH ONE OF HER HANDS. I never forgot that lesson and many times it's kept me from making a fool of myself when solving tricky problems.
I feel like this also has to do with fear of breaking preconceived rules
Bro that’s called cheating
@@turolretar well, it isn't though. they never said you should stick your tongue and have it touch WITH your elbow. the phrasing is different, but it's very subtle so we assume that it assumes the preconceived rules as mentioned by jbear
@@turolretar You might want to look more into this, because I *can guarantee you* that there are people who _could_ tell you the truth while not telling you what you *think* they're saying.
In programing that would verily be True.
"Survivors don't *_HAVE_* to be buried at all."
True, but I'm gonna do it anyways.
exactly, i am not gonna admit my fault, and others shall pay. lol
So you only need to bury the ones that KNOW what happened?
Knowing less actualy can save your life I guess...🤔
just burry the border.
LOL, my reflex answer was " In the ground" . so yea I would have buried them.
How about I *do* _anywaaaay?_
As a great philosopher once said:
"Your brain gets smart but your head gets dumb."
so much to do so much to see
So what’s wrong with taking the back streets
@@sam3524 You'll never know if you don't go.
Thou shalt not shine if thou dost not glow
Hey now, youre an all star
I've heard an interesting story once, I live in a farming community. There was a farmer who had three sons. Two of them went off to college and one of them stayed home and took care of the farm. Of the two that went to college, one went to business school, the other into agriculture. After graduating, the son who went into agriculture came back home. He preformed many tests on the soil and came up with a plan to triple their profit by planting a new crop that the family never grew. The brother who'd stayed home didn't like this idea. The father seeing them argue with one another smiled and said "Well why don't each of you take half the farm and do what you want. We can decide things next year when we see the results. They both reluctantly agreed. As the year went on the each son did their own things, the one who went to college grew his crop which had mostly shriveled and died he ended up taking a loss. The other son did things as they always had and ended up with enough profit to cover the loss, though just barely. Overall the third son had to help them through the winter. Utterly humiliated and embarrassed the educated son seeked his father for advice asking why his plan had failed. His father responded with an "I'm not sure, but we've never been able to grow those kinds of crops here." Surprised he asked "then why did you let me grow them in the first place?" His father replied "Well there's two reasons, if I hadn't let you fail then you never would have learned, also you may not have had a good relationship with your brother because of that, you need to work together. Second, because you might know something I don't, you might be able to succeed where I failed. You're brother is stuck in his ways, just as I had been at that age, but I have since learned to open my mind and be more reasonable."
From that day forward whenever the brothers had a dispute, the educated one wanted to try something new, they would result to splitting the farm. Over time the educated brother helped to increase efficiency and profit several tines. The uneducated brother learned to open his mind to more possibilities and all three brothers began working together to maximize efficiency and profit.
That's a good story.
Sounds like the one who went to school for business is the real untold wise one all along and had to support everyone else’s fooling around.
That's sweet and unexpected
@@yellowpowr8455 lmao
@@aleide2980 Agreed.
I saw the efficient solution right away. But my ADHD brain also doesn't form habits - I have to consciously think of every little step in making a sandwhich or washing dishes like I have never done it before.
And constantly keep basic tasks like eating, drinking, brushing teeth, sleep in my mind. Still forget a lot of the time. It's exhausting.
Same. God so much same. We should form a support group.
And it's not me saying it's exhausting. I just describe how my mind works to people and they just go "...wow, that sounds exhausting." And I just go 🥹 I feel so seen 😅
Yeah let's form a support grou...oh look another video
Hmm, its interesting how ADHD effects people differently. I have no problem with that as I play my violin pieces easily enough. Its split second decision making that sometimes I overshoot and do something impulsive.
@yiannimitropoulos3913 Mostly it feels like a curse but it's probably equally both?
In daily life it's very inconvenient not to have habits, accidentally skipping meals and forgetting to brush my teeth. I have been studying my Bachelor's degree for 8 years... A lot of time those failures in basic stuff is all I focus on.
But if I really think about it, my intelligence, creativity and open mindedness/ability to understand very stigmatized people are huge blessings. Unfortunately I'm cursed to be unable to apply them in any useful way :/ I have way wider and deeper knowledge than a typical undergrad, but nothing to show for it. Definitely get depressed at times.
_"There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact."_
-Sherlock Holmes
Ben Reilly yesssss
Obviously.
By the way.. who said that? Holmes is made in someone's imagination.
Guðmundur Ingi Guðmundsson The legendary Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
2+2=4
*I'm the master of deception*
"survivors don't need to be buried at all", they don't NEED, but they CAN
On point
Trollolololololol
wait no
i thought thy need before this video
technically you dont need to bury the dead either
I noticed this at uni. My theoretical physics partner who I solved the weekly problem sheets with was actually from the maths department and she said she didn‘t get the meaning of the lagrangian. She was far better than me when it came to handling the formulas while I was more interested in what they actually mean. I got sick once and she had to do the problem set alone and we got an almost perfect score. But then she admitted to me that she had no idea what the hell she was doing. It was mostly automatic for her. That was quite shocking tbh.
Lol what a silly person.
Does _anyone_ know the meaning of the lagrangian? As a PhD physicist, I can tell you why it's useful/what to do with it/intuition with how the classical equations of motion arise from QM, but none of that tells us what the lagrangian is.
@@pierrecurie Sure, my comment was never intended to insult said person at all, I was just shocked that the course was designed in a way that someone could pass the assignments without having ANY IDEA why we were taught this tool. Also, there is still a difference between us undergrads not knowing what the lagrangian really is, and someone far more experienced with a PhD judging its meaning.
It's common in Physics. Most people just do maths and a few bother to understand the physics. The evaluation system favors the mechanistic solving of equations so it selects the wrong people.
@@phillustrator Thanks, that's exactly what I meant!!!
at a scout camp, i was given a test. the test consisted of a number of wild and wacky activities like dancing like a chicken, running in circles or finding a pinecone. the sheer number of activities made me miss the line "read all the instructions before beginning the test" and as such i did not notice the last activity was to ignore all of the previous ones
And thus: “To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”
"I have yet to meet man smarter than bullet..."
From the hammer point of view, every man is a nail
@@dominiquelaurain6427 from the nails point of view, it all just hurts. Lol
@@MagklJellyBeanPastelLucidDream 555 so true
When I only had a hammer, I nailed a screw.
Baby Kevin : w...w..w...
His Parents : he is saying his first words!!
Kevin : WRONG!!
realistically it would be r... r... r... wrong
@@obviouslymatt6452 its w _r_ o n g
Very light r hard w
Be more like WONG
Is Micheal words when he was a baby is
O r
I s
It????
> His Parents : he is saying his first words!!
So, this molecular biologist comes home from a day's work, and their partner's ecstatic:
- Sweetie! our kid did say its first two words today!
- Wow, that's great! So it was "Mommy" and "Daddy"?
- Neither! It was: "Deoxyribonucleic acid".
"...bury the survivors."
Well, somewhere remote seems like a wise choice. 😂
This gives “ignorance is bliss” a whole other meaning
This is why a “fresh set of eyes” is sometimes needed to solve a particularly stubborn problem.
My favorite version of this is something a Math Professor said in college about a proof it went something like, “He walked away had a drink and looked at again tomorrow.”
I tried to take advantage of this once by forcing my brain to forget my final while I was doing it, look at it again and spot the mistake. It kinda worked, but it's hard to execute. I'll look more into it.
I am not a professional mathematician but solved dividing by 0! Instead of using undefined or just infinity and negitive infinity say all numbers in mathematics are the answer to dividing by 0 as there are so many solutions and some of them have infinite answers. You sometimes need new eyes to look at a problem.
@@plutarian7396 There is not infinitely many solutions the value of y = 1/x x-> 0 is an asymptote.
It’s also how some problems confuse you by giving *too much information*
"Where do you bury the survivors?"
There were no survivors but you, Kevin. But it wasn't your fault. It's time to let go and move on.
underrated
amazing
_Brilliant_
Where to bury the survivors? Someone else's backyard because i dont want to look suspicious.
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5:00 The *Einstelllung* effect might have an equivalent in Machine Learning, known as *overfitting.*
Overfitting is when an algorithm arrives at a solution which closely fits the training dataset, but doesn't generalise to other data.
This sounds like what happened to the people who became fixated on using all 3 cups to solve the problem.
Love your videos! 👍
No that's not it. Overfitting is basically memorizing the quiz answers without comprehending the questions.
AI has no capacity to comprehend anything, it has to memorize things. With generous enough model & training settings, it can have sufficient resources to simply memorize the whole dataset. The model design is about giving it only just enough resources to memorize basic reliable patterns so it can guess the answers correctly.
It’s not that learning makes you dumber, it’s learning to do things in just one way is a bad way to learn.
"Where to bury the survivors?"
Me: Their home countries. DUH!
I'm also think like that when the first time I hear the question but on second thought it depends on their family requested
Congratulations on surviving a plane crash! As a reward, you will be buried in your homeland!
That's what I was thinking
I think the question is misleading, you give trust to the questioner to give you a question that is not inherently wrong and as such you assume that survivors MUST be buried.
If the questioner started with a "should we bury the survivors?" question, then the problem would be solved immediately.
Sometimes the question itself is wrong, leading us to wild conclusions.
@@robertl4522 that is the purpose of the question
"You can't even use the largest jar."
If you take the jar with 76 ounces, and pour out 3 ounces at a time 25 times, you are left with 1 ounce. Pour that 1 ounce into the 28 ounce jar and repeat 25 times. There, a solution using the 76 ounce jar.
You went all in and defeated the system.
Yeah, 3 jars and 625 steps. But that's true :D
Or you could just pour out 3 ounces 17 times so you are left with 25 ounzes. I mean, 76 is congruent to 25 modulo 3
I can do better
1) fill in the 76 ounce jar
2) pour it 2 times into 28 jar, leaving 20 ounces in the bigger jar
3) empty all the jars
4) repeat the steps of a solution, not using the big jar anymore...
Smith true but people are to dumb 🤦🏻♂️ (he probably made a mistake in the numbers in the vid.)
Im german, and im always excited when a german word used in science randomly finds it way on my screen on an english video
There's certainly a German word for that, although it may be longer than many books. Langewörterdenkenimstau
As a great man once said:
"Your brain gets smart but your head gets dumb."
- Steven Scott Harwell
Brain: I always call me smart
but "survivors don't have to be buried at all!", right? "WRONG!"
Kevin has overlooked the fact that you need to hide the evidence *somehow*
Bury the surviving witnesses
Just make a huge barbecue with the survivors' flesh
Eat it for sustinence
Giorno Giovanna Giotto you sexy man
A crash
Michael: So, being stupid is smart... or is it?
Kevin: So, being stupid is smart, rightWRONG.
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So true 😂
That reminds me of our education system. In math class, I always learned easy problems and they got progressively harder and harder over time. There was never an exception. So by the time I was about 5-6 years into that, I expected a certain level of difficulty from every homework and every test I would get. That was until our school participated in a math study that contained questions that were a lot easier AND a lot harder than what I was doing at the time. It was a very weird feeling, being confronted with so many easy questions all of a sudden. But real life is exactly like that. Where I work, the difficulties of the problems I have to solve are always unpredictable. And so is the time needed to solve them.
it's like dilutions exercises in chemistry class.
They're so easy yet you black out on some questions that you would be able to solve immediately on an other day
Everyone: This rope is too hard to undo
Alexander the great: I’m about to do something known as a pro gamer move
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I always saw his way as cheating
@@jtwei7101 Oh it certainly was, but it also symbolically told everyone something.
"I don't care if its cheating. I have a sword and I'm not afraid to use it. Any objections to me being king?"
Reminds me of the one riddle that starts out with “you are a bus driver” and then goes into a complex description of how many people get on and off at each stop. Then, at the end, it just asks: “what color are the bus driver’s eyes?” And they’re so confused
And the Saint Ive's riddle, where it begins with "As I was going to St. Ive's..." and follows with meeting a certain number of people who each have a certain number of wives who each have a certain number of pets, then proceeds to ask how many were going to St. Ive's.
@@Blue-gp3vn oh yeah yeah that too
@@Blue-gp3vn is the answer you alone?
I just missed "you are a bus driver" and like of heard "there is a bus driver" when i was presented this one when i was 10 years old. My brain assumed that part was not relevant and threw it away from memory and replaced with something else. I think it's a different cognitive issue than trying to aligning new concepts into already known patterns. It's more focusing on relevant informations and discarding less relevant ones. But yes, you were exposed to problems before where the individuality of the character is not relevant to the solution, while numeric info is relevant, and continue in the pattern of replacing "ben" "tom" "mum" "you" with just "character A, B, C - not relevant who s/he is, relevant how many s/he has". Maybe a pre scholar 5 years old child is able to solve the riddle because s/he enjoys pretending to be different characters while inventing stories, and will react differently to "you are" and will remember that part!
Or the same riddle but asking for age instead of eye color.
You are the only one of the crew that continues with the original VSAUCE format and I really appreciate it
The Japanese total awareness thing is familiar to me as "zoning" (getting into the zone) or more recently "popping off" while playing a game.
You stop thinking, you don't really hear your mates callouts but you understand what was said and react well, you don't even really see things but you can aim at them and dodge them.
total awareness is totally opposite of zoning in
In the IT industry this comes up a lot during diagnosis. We sometimes know too much and we "forget" the basics.
After a week of IT diagnosis and someone accidentally restarted the hardware and it works again perfectly: ok
i misread this as IT the horror movie
Ive overcomplicated a lot of issues that end up being a really simple fix. Was fixing some drivers for a USB mouse not working no matter what, turns out just switching to a different port solved it. Really thought the issue was on a software or driver side. Nope.
Next time, try "newbie's luck". That's where interns come in.
My dad, who works in IT, never got a comp sci degree, taught himself how to code.
He swears up and down that 95% of computer problems are solved by turning it on and off again.
"I hope this video makes you dumber"
*It seems you have underestimated my stupidity*
Bilbo Wagons ah ha you intellect you have underestimated the fact that I don’t have a brain as I am not human I am a sandwich
@@atheontimesconflux4613 Mind if I ask what type of sandwich?
asking for a friend.
Underrated comment bro
This is why lesson plans in schools are so structured and rules for holding back kids are so strict. They need to know WHAT you know, that you know certain things and how youve learned said things, to both build upon and also assure you wont reject the new information.
This video is making me feel good about my habit of jumping around different topics until i am satisfied with what i know about it , and avoiding being a professional at any subject 😅
This reminds me of this time in middle school when someone was asked to give a large number, in this case 8,675,309, and write down two numbers when multiplied produce that number.
I tried and tried to no avail and then, one of my friends told me that I could just write 8,675,309 * 1. I remember feeling so horrible about myself for not being able to solve it even though prime factorization would be near damn impossible for a middle school class. I think that's exactly like the Einstellung effect
The fraction 8,675,309/2 and 2
@@liaar5899 r/techincallythetruth
Btw 8,675,309 is a prime number, so 1 * 8,675,309 is the only solution.
moon tiger never said it cant be decimals
Two things here, it isn't the same thing. The Einstellung effect happens when a person is shown a series of patterns leading to solutions then when one breaks the pattern, the person has trouble solving the problem. It is the same reason people have trouble on certain IQ tests, they are given a several series of numbers and have to figure the pattern, most are easy, every other odd number, then about the 5th or 6th problem, there is not a simple pattern to the numbers and people have a hard time solving it. This is just a big number that overwhelmed a young person. Also, it happens to be a Tommy Tutone song 867-5309/Jenny!!!! Come on!
"I am perusing peak stupidity"
I mean, all you had to do was log into Twitter
I appreciate how you spell "pursuing." You are on the right track. ;)
Or Reddit. Or 4chan. Those two are way worse than Twitter.
@@RaylaEclipse twitter is just a cesspool of outrage
@@lucasng4712 I'm not saying that's wrong, I'm just saying that 4chan and Reddit are both worse than Twitter. Reddit I could see being either better or worse tbh, but 4chan is for sure worse than either of the two.
it's at 0:37
Great video! Reminds me of a line I heard from I don’t know where: “sometimes the portion we see blinds us to the portion we do not see.” It’s the nature of our ignorance that what we don’t know is invisible to us, even to the point that our brains have evolved to keep things invisible because they those things remaining invisible is reproductively expedient. What we know is limited, what we don’t know is infinite.
The best part about the Indiana Jones example is that Harrison Ford was the one that came up with the idea of just shooting the guy. The writer's were so focused on how great a swordsman the guy was and the crazy moves Indiana would have to pull to win that they missed the obvious solution he carried around with him the entire time.
Vsause: Being dumb makes you smart
Me: I smart
IMHO, it's a balance. Seek to learn new things, find patterns, go as far as you need to complete your goals. BUT also treat everything like you are learning it for the first time. Don't get caught up in what you think you know.
When intelligence is a shortcut, you've gone to far.
Unfortunately, you will never know when you should be relying on what you know, or starting from scratch. The simple act of participating in a puzzle (eg life's conflicts) becomes confusing and frustrating. It's deeply uncomfortable to understand the possibility that what you know might not be right, all the time. But you will always go further because if you knew what you needed to know, then you will come to that same conclusion, but this time with a greater understandings. And if you didn't know what you needed to know, now you'll be able to see it clearly.
I believe you, because you spelled Vsauce wrong.
@@Eric-zz5ij or.did he 🎶
@Ron Manevitch The best jokes are based in reality. Alejandro Inc was making a joke, but I don't doubt it was based in reality as no one is above feeling dumb at least some of the time.
The twist is that it can work out to their favor.
why waste time say lot word when few word do trick
I'm wondering if beginners luck is actually somewhat related to this effect.
Makes sence
Especially in video games
Ohhh really smart yep I that could be it
Beginners consider everything as there is no strategy
beginners are trully unpredictable
It's probably a good thing then that many video games first introduce you to simple solutions to problems, then often continue to intermingle simple solutions even as other problems start to require more complex strategies. You might have to start thinking of more complicated solutions, but you don't outright stop using the simple ones.
I'm surprised he managed to go the entire video without using the most common phrase associated with it, "thinking outside the box". There are some fields where this is arguably the mostly highly regarded ability in the discipline. Computer science and theoretical physics come to mind.
"Thinking outside the box" when not a buzzword, tends to mean: "random result obtained by pure chance" however...
@@JuanLeon-oe6xe nah. think outside the box is exactly forgetting framework and patterns, and look at data with fresh eyes and let an original solution present itself
@@ideegeniali Soo... Divine Providence?
@@JuanLeon-oe6xe
No he described it perfectly. When I get stuck on a problem and can't seem to find any possible solution I remind myself that there is more than one way to skin a cat.
It helps to jolt me out of the tunnel vision that is blocking me from finding a solution.
@@sikkitty I seriously fail to see why I should feel "superior" for obtaining a result by result of chance.
*Especially* when life gets to the point when you can´t afford _any_ mistakes, which you´re bound to do when you go by trial and error, even if there´s the filter of a "good idea".
Sure, _some_ problems will get resolved by not even trying to think of a solution (in before anyone says Penicilin), I just hope none of you runs into the exact sort of issue where no amount of luck (with the only possible exception of _fate manipulation_ abilities) will help.
I love that Kevin brought up the swordsman scene in Indiana jones, because in reality Harrison ford was supposed to have a big 3.5 page choreographed sword fighting scene , but Ford had been sick with dysentery for a couple days already, and asked Spielburg to film the scene differently as to spend more time in the bathroom and less time on set 😂
Lol
iirc the swordsman was so mad that his time was wasted that he just left the set.
It doesn’t sound like the issue is being “too smart”. It sounds like the issue is lazy thinking. Relying too much on assumptions developed from previous problem solving rather than looking for a fresh solution when one is called for. The lack of a kaizen mind, one that constantly looks for better solutions even when the problem is familiar.
Yeah, I got all of them right. I wasn't stuck in any mindset. This reminds me of a question asked in psychology class.
"How do you throw a ball so that it makes a complete stop, and goes in the opposite direction of where you threw it, without bouncing it off of anything?"
I got it immediately, as well as like 6 people. Out of 20-25 students.
The answer is to throw it straight up.
Sarah Abramova dang I was assuming the guy was in a room lol. I didn’t even think about whether he was outside or not. Cause if he was in a room it would have hit the ceiling and came back down
@@ericvisser5253 Even in a room, you could just not throw it hard enough to hit the roof.
@@SarahAbramova I got it but I understand how people would mess that up. People's 'mindset' is to throw a ball forward, so when they see this, they will be confused.
Yes, thanks WMxSmith.
That's exactly what I was thinking from the beginning of the video and I wanted to see if someone commented on that.
I would also like to add that not being lazy minded like that, could be considered being smarter. So in the very end, the premise of the video is WRONG! :P
9:05 "Sometimes it's just...better to know a lot less."
ONLY SOMETIMES
3:24 I actually noticed it would be easier to do 23-3 right away :>
This actually is exactly what people do when learning to draw realistically. People have symbols they've used to represent things since childhood. A head is a circle. A house is a square with a triangle. To draw realistically people need to unlearn these and see the reference as in is instead of how they think it is to accurately reproduce it.
Learning photography the same thing happens. What color you think things are and what color things actually are is not the same. Shadows are not black, they are blue. The sun isn't yellow, it's white. Roads aren't black, they are gray. And so on.
I had this issue with learning to sing. In my head I am replicating the song exactly but when I listen to my recording it sounds all wrong, which for quite a while I blamed the microphone and/or the recording device but I've slowly brought the two into agreement but dang it's hard
@@seekerofthemutablebalance5228 Partly because one is hearing it inside their skull which deepens the sound.
@@lunyxappocalypse7071really? Mine sounds higher than n my hesd
There is this chinese proverb that I really like that maybe will fit here: "You have eyes but you fail to recognize mount Tai" it is about peoople who are too arrogant to see properly what is front of their face.
*chinese novels ptsd*
@@tendatonda1634 Coughs up blood
@@morodaye1417 JUNIOR YOU DARE!!
@@tendatonda1634 Coughs up even more blood and offers to serve you if only you'll spare me
@@morodaye1417 Yes, you will serve as my assistant in extracting medicinal herbs for my cultivation pills junior.
So what he is basically saying is sometimes things are so simple it's easily overlooked, good video.
I liked the conclusion and especially the end of the video. So wholesome :)
"Dont do that... dont give me hope."
“Can learning make you dumb?”
Teachers: * sweating *
Can learning make you
Dumb
@@kkmac7247 you are
Cool
Reminds me of my dumbass math teachers who only accepted the right answer done in a specific way.
200th like.
government: Stops funding schools
Mastering a skill and specializing in something is great and there are some things you'll be able to do only with that high level of specialization. But it can also tunnel vision you into viewing things from that perspective without see what's around
Been feeling lonely with my intelligence and awareness, this video is somewhat of a wakeup call. Just gotta go with the flow and stop overthinking every little thing
I'm currently reading "The Art of Thinking Clearly" by Rolf Dobelli. E extensively covers our everyday cognitive biases, and I found myself falling for so many of them, after being aware of their existence. It helps to be aware of this Einstellung effect and to always question my solution to a problem. For an engineer this is especially important, since we care a lot about efficiency in regards of cost, material and design.
I'm an engineer and you are so right. It's easy to get stuck in one ditch of thinking that's not the most efficient solution and sometimes might even be dangerous. I've learned to step back and _try_ to use fresh eyes. Look at something I'm doing like I've never seen it before and see what jumps out as questionable. I did it just yesterday and realized I was in the ditch, then pulled in another set of fresh eyes and asked them to confirm. I was.
PS thanks for the book recomendation.
@@alwaystinkering7710I see guys in the comments constantly mentioning a fresh set of eyes. Where do you all get them? Because I got mine from alibaba, and they don’t fit me at all. Please help
Random fact: German chocolate cake is named after a guy named Sam German, not the country.
SciFactsYT amother fun fact: german chocolate cake is absolutely disgusting to most germans and pretty much everyone else not from the US.
@@rickharper4533 Im german and never heard of such Cake :D. We just name it "Schoko Sahne" = Chocolate cream
another random fact:
in that scene from indiana jones,
that bullet was powered by diarrhoea
@@rickharper4533 uhm. No. You guys don't have a monopoly on chocolate. Like at all.
@@dutchik5107 He legit stated the opposite tho????
I remember hearing a story- and I don't know if this actually happened- about the designing of a "gun-type" atomic bomb. This is a type of atomic bomb where the fission reaction is triggered by a uranium "bullet" being propelled by a conventional explosive down a tube into a fissile material, triggering a nuclear explosion. Someone raised concern about the tube inside the bomb being subject to tremendous friction that would destroy it. The scientists then started talking about possible solutions to this problem until one of the military guys pointed out it only needed to fire once.
I never knew there was a way to call yourself dumb in such a smart way
that's how I define a truly intelligent person: someone with knowledge that is able to escape their mental framework to find solutions without their 'lens.'
Yeah it's a great sign of high iq, in fact the concave convex mask can be figured out if you have high iq. Also it's a famous schizophrenia test sence they dont fall for optical illusions so they just see it for what it is no figuring it out. With a perfect mask its hard to even tell if its rotating left or right.
@@1stdragon123 👍🍆
I did the efficient way before he explained it, and I felt so proud.
Bob Destroyer of English same
Intelligence isnt measured in how quickly it takes for you to subtract. It's measured in how many feet you can put in your inner ear canal without causing permanent hearing loss or cancer.
I've always called this "mindset"think as tunnel vision. When you get so focused on something that you stop seeing what's around you and you go down a rabbit hole or a goose chase you didn't need to.
Matt T but when you are in the tunnel vision, you can’t see that you are in the tunnel vision and so you don’t realize until someone makes you look “a diffrent way” of course speaking metaphorically about all this
@@PyroYeet yea it's hard to realize you have tunnel vision on something until after the fact
@@PyroYeet *motor-phorically, although, i dont think it is quite a tunnel for cars :D
Thanks for the reminder to take a break and come back with a clearer mind
This is actually a good explanation of overfitting in neural networks. The fundamental problem being too closely wed to a specific way of solving a problem, rather than using the more general method
“Survivors don’t need to be buried at all”
They will when I run another plane into them.
NO THAT IS RIDICULOUS
I’ll beat you to it
Should you run another plane or should you bury them alive? That's the question.
(Unless you want to do both)
@@ferociousmaliciousghost bury them for 50 hours and crash a plane into them half way through the 50 hours.
Fun fact: That scene in Indiana Jones is a direct consecuence of H.F having diarrhea
I find that hard to be true but people always say it
Not just him, a lot of people on set had diarrhea because of food poisoning. I think the catering didn't properly store the food, so it had gone bad and made everyone have the runs...
@@Lifesizemortal i lost the link with the interview
i heard it as food poisoning but isnt diarrhea a symptom of food poisoning anyway?
n_e_e_t Basically, it was their last day on that particular set, and Ford was not in good enough condition to do an extended fight scene, so someone came up with the idea of Jones just shooting the swordsman.
"What color is snow? What color is ghost? What do cows eat?" is a common trick in Finland amongst kids (can't remember the initial questions though so made them up). Once you answer white a couple of times, you answer "milk" automatically to the cow question.
When you say "balance this egg on one of its ends" you kinda set a presumption that it has to stand on the end. When you smash the end to pieces, it has no end, just a rim of shell.
The funny bit about the Indiana Jones scene is that Harrison Ford hadn't bothered to learn the sword fight coreography, and just decided to get out of the troublesome scene shooting situation with the director by making it a joke.
The jar problems were in a book I was allowed to read during detention... and 4th grade me felt victim to it.
Well, I didn’t recognise that Einstellung was a German (my mother tongue) word, I was so into hearing English that I my first thought was, that it sounded like Einstein..
19Mario03 hahah samee! Although I’m from the Netherlands :))
Same
Just say it's your first language, mother tongue is a really really old frase.
@@benstewart5334 Mother tongue is perfectly acceptable, I wouldn't refer to it as an archaic phrase at all
Ben Stewart, well it’s one of those phrases they teach you in school instead of teaching you many synonyms. If I remember, I’ll use first language next time, it does sound better
"Your brain is the greatest computer ever invented."
What year is this?
The year we go extinct
Boomer remover virus
As the great Donald Trump said: 20,014
@Innocent Bystander That clears everything up. Thank you.
@@ourochroma 😷🤒🥵😱💀☠
This is the first video from this channel where I didn't learn anything new. That feels good.
Learned something new today, great explanation! Thanks
Note to self: when he says "Right?" It's wrong
It's right.
Or is it?
Just wait
Are you sure you want to program yourself that way?
@@TheSkullConfernece lol
Sure you are not just falling for the einstellung effect?
The real Einstellung Paradox is that the word "Einstellung" can have like a dozen different meanings in English
For the best cryptic philosophical or cognitive essays you need write them in German precisely to that effect! Each word must be defined before using it. Practical English won't serve the purpose very well! I'm joking and i'm Italian.
Summary: "Common sense is not common"
Ironic, isn't it?
Reminds me a lot of a problem I had recently. Ive been shooting videos of painting and speeding them up a certain amount. I wanted to switch to time-lapse mode which takes a still image at a certain interval but was having trouble figuring out the correct interval to be equivalent to the same speed as before. I was trying to math my way through it. My husband just said "why don't you shoot a minute or 10 of time-lapse and then play it back to see how long the footage is?" GOD did I feel dumb! 😂
"If you don't got no sauce, you lost. But you can also get lost in the sauce."
-Gucci Mane
desu38 words to live by
@Casual Improvement
A comRADE is coming
Me:uh oh A FRIEND!
Great, I'm going to be the smartest man alive
Wyrmi Same
that painting at 11:21 is hilarious. It's like the old timey version of that gif of all the black guys celebrating.
This video made me realize that fatal flaws are good things to have.
So this explains the statement: begginer's "luck"
omg ur right!, almost missed it
:O
@@alvin3758 lol true
a.k.a. beginner's awareness
Fun fact: That Indiana Jones scene was originally written for an elaborate fight with Indy using his whip against the swordsman but Harrison Ford came down with food poisoning and not feeling well Ford asked, "Can't I just shoot him?" xD
that makes it perfect example
Me: "obviously, the survivors would be buried in their origin country. I can see through your riddles"
"SURVIVORS ARE NOT BURIED"
"sh*t"
I feel so smart. I didn’t fall for the “bury the survivors” trick
9:51
As a chilean I can confirm
I've never heard about san antonio so I thought "the famous city must be bigger"
Except that experiment is no longer true, since the growth of the city DID matter over time and the population of San Antonio is now about 100,000 more than San Diego.
Ke wea te pasa con san antonio mono kuliao somo entero choros alla 😡🗡
@@CharlieQuartz I looked it up. San Antonio is (in 2010) 1,327,407. San Diego is (in 2010) 2,964,000. San Diego (which for some reason I usually end up typing Sand Diego) IS bigger.
I answer questions with that type of logic all the time.
As an Italian, same
9:43 i am german and have never heard of "san antonio". realizing his statement about "more famous = more people" is true kinda creeped me out.
Ich bin eigentlich kein Deutscher
Because I know English
What?
In 2019 the population of San Antonio was 1.508 million whereas the population of San Diego at the same time was 1.41 million. More famous is not always more people.
@@SatanRomps i think they meant counties for some reason: in 1999 San Diego county had 2.821m people, and Bexar county (the one San Antonio is located in) had 1.373m. In other words, they were viewing suburbs as parts of the cities
@@OlegWoronin then say bexar COUNTY, not San Antonio CITY. We all agreed on words and their meanings. Maybe lets not confuse the non english speaking kids any further with your American quizzes? Not saying its your fault, obviously, but, ssrsly, you think they'd be a little more specific. :/
I feel a little proud that I realized the optimal solution immediately after you outlined the 23 49 and 3 oz jar problem. Same for the next one, though that was easier since you already outlined the flaw with the original algorithm.
Aaaand I then immediately fell for that plane crash scenario language trick. Such is the folly of... well, me.
This video is awesome! Good work!
4:20 For those who also like doing things inefficiently, you can fill the 76oz jar, then fill the 3oz jar 17 times.
"Sometimes you just got to get stupid."
Me standing up:
My time has come
Star Wars Fool trips while standing up*
This is the same effect we have in the fighting game community. I always tell the people I train you will get worse the better you get at the game. You have to find the simplest solution...but the more they learned the would always try a more complex move..like instead of kick the do a special move...
Just think of how sometimes you want a "fresh pair of eyes" to help you on a problem you are stumped on
"EINSTELLUNG EFFECT" *insert groovy music*
I wondered what Einsten's lung had to do with it... Hahaha
What's the name of the track?
@@JohnnyDoeDoeDoe no idea
Dies irae
exactly
Fun Fact: "Einstellungen" (the plural of "Einstellung") is also the common translation for 'options' in Video Games and stuff
You either know German or messed with the game language a few too many times.
It is more like Settings
"Einstellung"
-Mindset
-Setting
-The action of ending a business or service, E.g. abandonment, discontinuation
-Attitude
-Adjustment
-Tuning
-Employment, enlistment
Source: I'm a german hobby author.
@@ThisGuyHere17 i guess it's both fine. maybe settings is more specific. i don't know
You chould also say setting
I immediately saw the solution to the last jar problem... but I think it helps that I am a programmer and i recognized the error of the algorithm you were showing that did not take into account the possibility of not using the largest jar.
The true intelligent person is not only who can solve more complex problem but along with must be also always open to new ways of solving the problem.
4:26 "Could only be solved with the 2 smaller jars."
76-3*25=1
you do that 25 times and you'll get it
or you do it one time and then add 3 eight times
Just removing 3*17 works. But the point is that it's super inefficient.
do you know this word called "efficiently"?
@@asriel5541 what do you mean by "efficiently"?
1. Less "jar operations" used
2. Less time thinking
3. Less time "trying things"
Because now the solution for any number "N" with 76 and 25 jars is:
N*(76 - 3*25)
You could literally make a computer program that does this.
I mean, it is less efficient by criteria 1, but more efficient by criteria 2 and 3.
Generalizing you could use the Extended Euclid algorithm(Link here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Euclidean_algorithm) to compute it. Sometimes problems are simply too complex to solve by guessing.
Just another thing: "efficiently" related to the 1,2,3 criteria: there's a reason why "inefficient programming languages"(as in: in the same computer, comparing the most common implementation of the 2 languages, one of them is slower) exist:
Yes, coding a solution in freaking assembly with all ninja tricks may be faster, but it's a lot of work compared to simply using a python script, so you have to decide if it's worth spending a lot of time and effort trying to code a solution to a problem in a "fast but dumb language"(let's just say that to keep it simple).
@Hand Grabbing Fruits yes, I know.
The most efficient way to solve this problem is to have a computer solve for you. Thank you and have a good day.