Desrtopa comments on Do biases matter? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Desrtopa 21 February 2011 01:46:52AM *  0 points [-]

Biases may not always be a bad thing, but you can't tell whether they're good in any specific case without comparing them objectively to an unbiased position. You can't skip straight to second order rationality without employing first order rationality first. If biases are bad on average, then as a rule you're generally better off assuming that it's better not to preserve your bias.