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    "title": "Meta-reasoning: Deciding which game to play, which problem to solve, and when to quit",
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    "abstract": "People are general purpose problem solvers. We obtain food and shelter, manage companies, solve moral dilemmas, spend years toiling away at thorny math problems, and even adopt arbitrary problems through puzzles and games. The cognitive flexibility which allows us to represent and reason about such a wide range of problems, often referenced as a distinguishing feature of human intelligence (Tomasello, 2022), presents us with an especially ubiquitous one: deciding which problem to solve. The meta-level problem of what problem to choose exists, in part, because people have limited problem solving resources (Griffiths et al., 2020). While this challenge has been examined through various lenses across cognitive science, implicit in many of these perspectives is the notion of bounded rationality. Given our limited time and energy, how do we decide which problems are worthwhile and when we should quit to pursue something new?",
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