ciphergoth comments on Open Thread, August 2010-- part 2 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ciphergoth 11 August 2010 10:25:44AM 2 points [-]

Just watched Tyler Cowen at TEDx Mid-Atlantic 2009-11-05 talking about how our love of stories misleads us. We talk about good-story bias on the Wiki.

Is there a way good-story bias could be experimentally verified?

Comment author: Matt_Simpson 13 August 2010 05:55:36PM 2 points [-]

late to the party? :)

Comment author: Alexandros 11 August 2010 01:02:03PM *  2 points [-]

Nice video. I am thinking that conjunction bias and hyperactive agency detectors are both linked to this 'story bias'. Of course religion milks this set for all it's worth.

Another question that came to me was whether telling children stories helps them or wires them up to keep thinking in terms of stories.

Comment author: timtyler 11 August 2010 11:16:59AM 0 points [-]

Tyler Cowen tells a nice story here.

Comment author: ciphergoth 11 August 2010 11:36:41AM 1 point [-]

As he points out.