Wei_Dai comments on Anticipation vs. Faith: At What Cost Rationality? - Less Wrong
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My reasoning here is that evolution in general has very limited foresight, therefore there must be a limit to human rationality somewhere that is probably far short of ideal rationality. "It's always worked that way for me before" doesn't seem like very strong evidence in comparison to that argument.