Will_Newsome comments on Fun and Games with Cognitive Biases - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 18 February 2011 09:58:47PM 4 points [-]

The intelligence community has a long history of interest in debiasing, and even produced a rationality handbook based on internal CIA publications from the 70's and 80's.

Thanks for the link, sounds interesting!

Comment author: Will_Newsome 19 February 2011 12:05:56PM *  4 points [-]

I heard from someone who heard from someone that the handbook was correctional due to flagrant institutional anti-epistemology and thus the culture might not be as rational as one might expect from just reading the CIA rationality publications. Just a warning...

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