JamesAndrix comments on Your Most Valuable Skill - Less Wrong

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Comment author: JamesAndrix 28 September 2009 10:38:20PM 4 points [-]

we enter adulthood with an arsenal of heuristics that are mostly good enough.

Humans are rational enough in the same way that we are strong enough.

Comment author: CronoDAS 29 September 2009 03:34:17AM 2 points [-]

When we're not strong enough individually, we work around it by using more people, using animals, or using machinery.

When we're not rational enough individually...

um...

what DO we do, anyway? Throw enough scientists at the problem and hope the right answer emerges?

Comment author: Mycroft65536 29 September 2009 01:00:59PM 2 points [-]

We're strong enough to fill our evolutionary niche, barely.

Our heuristics are good enough to get us through life with an adequate chance of success.

We can do better.