53. 关于找方向，一条反直觉建议
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🧬前段时间，图灵奖得主“强化学习之父”之一的Richard Sutton来学校讲座。
虽然强化学习的专业知识没听懂几句，但Sutton在提问环节的一个回答，引发了我的思考。
当被问到“年轻学者应该掌握什么，好进入人工智能领域做贡献？”
Sutton说：“找到那件你骨子里就知道的事儿——对你来说太显而易见，以至于都没有发觉别人其实不知道。”
这句话说的很轻松，也很玄妙。
仔细一想，就知道找到“这件事儿”对于每个人，都不是容易的旅程。
但提供了一种很反直觉的思考方式，也许我们都可以回头看看自己，是什么，让你独一无二？——最有价值的贡献，很可能藏在你的“无意识优势”里。
由此也想到，在高速工业化追求效率的社会背景里，人是否也在被某种“标准模版”裹挟前进？
陈绮贞说：“当有人从小就希望你在相同的尺寸里面长成同一个样子，然后好方便他们的收纳，好方便他们管理的时候，你就不会是一个完整的人。”
无论如何，通过Sutton的回答，我有了一个当下明确的答案：在追求标准化的世界，“人”应该是逆行的存在。
btw：Sutton本科在斯坦福学的心理学😆
附上Sutton的原话：
In my opinion—your most important contribution—will be something that you already know.
You already know it in your bones to be true, but other people don’t see it. And you probably don’t even see that other people don’t see it. Because to you, it just seems obviously true, so why wouldn’t it be obvious to other people?
If you can find the thing that’s obvious to you, but not obvious to other people, that will be your big contribution.
As for the literature being so vast—just remember the fact that it is vast. It is too big. You cannot know everything. You cannot even come close to knowing everything. There is so much; the world is big and general, and the world of science has too many papers in it.
You cannot learn everything comprehensively in any sense. You have to specialize. So just relax about that. Try to pick a good topic—something that interests you—and drill into it, and be good at that.
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