timtyler comments on But Somebody Would Have Noticed - Less Wrong

36 Post author: Alicorn 04 May 2010 06:56PM

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Comment author: timtyler 04 May 2010 07:41:54PM 14 points [-]

IMO, "Somebody would have noticed!" is a pretty good heuristic - and if anything it takes a considerable amount of training before most people make sufficient use of it.

I think the reason is the natural "bias" towards self importance and egoism.