• agent_flounder@lemmy.one
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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.