Johnicholas comments on Kinnaird's truels - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Johnicholas 05 March 2009 09:08:48PM 2 points [-]

There is only a conflict between the predictions ("overconfidence is a benefit" and "underconfidence is a benefit"), if the evolutionary situations are indistinguishable.

If the organism can distinguish the different kinds of games, we may have a single, nuanced prediction; it will be overconfident in these situations and underconfident in these other situations.

I'm not recalling the structure of the ev. psych. / game theory examples that predict overconfidence. Could someone remind me or point me?