orthonormal comments on Humans are not automatically strategic - Less Wrong

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Comment author: orthonormal 09 September 2010 10:11:48PM 12 points [-]

The fact that we so blatantly fail to optimize for using reason to solve our problems, and so effortlessly use it to rationalize our actions, is another strong piece of evidence for the thesis that reasoning evolved primarily for arguing.