TheOtherDave comments on Humans are not automatically strategic - Less Wrong

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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).