• pjhenry1216@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    The problem is that the efficiency is achieved through shortcuts and biases. It’d those biases people need to be careful with.

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      1 year ago

      Works fine when you’re a wild animal, not so much when you’re part of a society

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      1 year ago

      In other words, shortcuts and biases really just trade accuracy for speed.

      Those many cognitive biases we succumb to may be great for scenarios faced by hominids a hundred thousand years ago or more. But for sussing out truth and evaluating evidence, they’re straight caca.