kpreid comments on Rationality Quotes August 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: cousin_it 03 August 2011 12:09:44AM *  27 points [-]

This sounds wrong. Biases have predictable direction, that's why they're called biases and not variance (ahem).

Comment author: kpreid 03 August 2011 12:49:24AM 7 points [-]

Particularly, what we know about cognitive biases precisely is “theory of irrational behavior” — we just don't have a, complete, theory of irrational behavior.