TheOtherDave comments on Humans are not automatically strategic - Less Wrong

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Comment author: hyporational 05 December 2013 07:32:43PM 1 point [-]

Both choosing a career and choosing a mate seem to suffer from this weird expectation of finding the one that fits me perfectly. This sort of thinking has always been very alien to me, and to this day I don't understand what causes it. I suppose media has something to do with it.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 05 December 2013 08:32:00PM 0 points [-]

It seems to me a special case of a broader habit of inferring individual agents where the reality is more distributed statistical patterns, which I expect pre-dates media in the modern sense (though I suppose we could say modern media has something to do with it in the sense of reinforcing a pre-existing tendency, if we wanted).