patinador comments on Humans are not automatically strategic - Less Wrong

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Comment author: patinador 09 September 2010 08:54:05PM -1 points [-]

Doing things the wrong way is a good way of discovering new ways and ideas. If we were programmed to go always in the right direction we couldn't explore the landscape and we should be trapped in a local minima. Random behaviour is part of an intelligent design to evolve and mature. Humour is a way of jumping across island of rationality.

Comment author: ata 09 September 2010 10:27:54PM 0 points [-]

The Futility of Chaos is the sequence that responds to this sort of claim. (That sequence depends on Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions, if you haven't read it yet.)

Comment author: Sniffnoy 09 September 2010 11:33:23PM 2 points [-]

You seem to be confusing the right thing with the obvious thing?

Comment author: orthonormal 09 September 2010 10:16:29PM 2 points [-]

Firstly, welcome to Less Wrong! Be sure and introduce yourself on the welcome thread.

You raise a valid point, but the benefit you mention doesn't explain doing the wrong thing again and again, after enough evidence has accumulated; and it also doesn't explain that we do lots of things wrong in the exact same ways.