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How to ThinkIn the Age of AI
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Build validation mechanisms that test your work against…

Build validation mechanisms that test your work against external reality independent of your internal experience of progress.

Why This Is a Principle

The validation set concept from machine learning in L-0484. Grounded in Perception as Predictive Construction (prediction error minimization), Illusion of Explanatory Depth (self-assessment unreliability), and The performance of an agent is bounded by the accuracy… (model accuracy bounds performance). Prescribes external feedback loops.