Eugine_Nier comments on Alternative Places to Get Ideas (Also, "In Defense of Food") - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 30 December 2010 07:08:05PM *  5 points [-]

The problem is that once you begin to act you're subject to commitment bias. Namely, as happened in the example, you have a psychological and possibly institutional commitment to the correctness of the theory you're acting under.