DSimon comments on The Boundaries of Biases - Less Wrong

8 Post author: Vaniver 01 December 2010 12:43AM

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Comment author: DSimon 01 December 2010 04:30:57PM *  4 points [-]

The heuristics I'm interested in for that section aren't heuristics that are merely efficient, but heuristics that sacrifice accuracy for computational cheapness.

Ok, I see what you mean. Sounds like the difference between a bad bias and a good bias is whether the person realizes they're sacrificing accuracy, and is consistent in dealing with the consequences of that.

Or maybe a better way to put it is: bad biases lose accuracy, good biases only lose precision.

Comment author: Vaniver 02 December 2010 12:24:12AM 1 point [-]

bad biases lose accuracy, good biases only lose precision.

That is a beautiful way to put it.