wedrifid comments on Your Evolved Intuitions - Less Wrong
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I'd say there is time to do both.
When looking at biases I find it useful to distinguish between the ones that are the outcome of our reasoning 'just not being good enough' and those where sound reasoning appears to be actively sabotaged. Those cases where evolution spent extra optimization power introducing mechanisms that hinder the formation of correct beliefs due other selection pressures.
Of course we can also spend time explaining how good human reasoning is, either for the sake of saying "Rah! Humans" or for the purpose of developing our own optimisation processes. The two quests for knowledge are hardly mutually exclusive.
Pompomtime! Go, Humans! Hehe.
We'll need to know both to decide just which biases we want to keep, if any.
Edit - please disregard this post