JulianMorrison comments on Rationality Quotes - July 2009 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: loqi 02 July 2009 11:43:01PM 14 points [-]

It's pretty depressing. Not too long ago, someone I know expressed the belief that red is more likely to come up on a roulette table if the last five spins landed on black. He holds a graduate degree in computer science.

Comment author: JulianMorrison 03 July 2009 04:50:04PM 3 points [-]

Representativeness heuristic. It's what humans have as a hardwired probability estimator, unless they learn counter-intuitive maths.