brazil84 comments on Fundamentally Flawed, or Fast and Frugal? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: brazil84 20 December 2009 08:43:24PM 0 points [-]

It seems to me that the problems with human rationality really start to come out when our sense of self is somehow on the line.

It's one thing to guess at which of two foreign cities is bigger. It's another to guess at which child is smarter -- our own child or or somone else's.

So perhaps we as humans have hardware and software which is pretty good, except that we sometimes use our brainpower to fool ourselves.