colinmarshall comments on Debate: Is short term planning in humans due to a short life or due to bias? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: colinmarshall 12 July 2009 02:36:54AM 1 point [-]

I would submit that it's less an issue of the biologically-imposed limit to our life spans than the biologically-imposed limit to our predictive abilities, to the amount of "moving part" data our brains can work with simultaneously. Considering that we only seem to achieve anything like accuracy when predicting events on a very, very small scale of both time and complexity, one might argue that we actually plan in too long a term.