Mind · Reasoning
HeuristicSnap
Rapid, low-cost decision making via pattern recognition
Definition
Mechanism
Fast pattern matching against a Cache of past experiences. Returns a decision in <100ms based on similarity to past success, bypassing expensive reasoning chains. It bypasses the expensive ChainOfThought when Budget is low, relying on cached pattern matches.
Risks
Failure modes
False recognition
a Problem scores above the confidence floor while differing structurally from the cached case, so the cached Decision is imported with assumptions that do not hold. Similarity is not Equivalence.
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Infrastructure
Resource allocation limit
Infrastructure
Keyed storage for reusing previously obtained values
Step-by-step reasoning (Macro for Think(Chain))
Infrastructure
Irrevocable selection from a set of options
Infrastructure
Sameness decided by canonical content rather than by label
Infrastructure
A state gap with a cost of inaction
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