Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Evolved Bayesians will be biased - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 August 2009 10:31:08PM 15 points [-]

But if you look at the heuristics and biases literature, there's plenty of material on decision biases and how to correct them.

And the other side of it is that A+D is not adding up to Bayesian. Sometimes it sorta works, sometimes it adds up to derangement, and of course it adds up to derangement much more often outside the ancestral environment. I don't think we really have the option of leaving both sides alone. You've just got to try and fix both sides simultaneously.