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Vladimir_Nesov comments on Heuristic is not a bad word - Less Wrong
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Shall I take the lack of comments to mean that:
a) Everyone agrees with my points and thinks that they are obvious or trivial
b) Nobody is interested in this topic
c) TL:DR
d) This post is very general and people are waiting for me to get more specific
e) Nobody knows what heuristic is, so they don't read the post
f) ???
The article looks as if you are arguing, but at the same time the arguments seem so obvious that you can only argue against an invisible strawman.
I'm curious about why you think I'm setting up a straw man. The heuristics and biases literature in psychology seems to focus on the costs of heuristic, but not on its potential. I illustrated this point with the quote from Tversky and Kahneman: "in general, these heuristics are quite useful, but sometimes they lead to severe and systematic errors." When I searched Overcoming Bias about heuristic, which I linked to in my post, it is mainly discussed the same way it is discussed in the psychological literature. Perhaps computer science, AI research, and mathematics take a more positive view of heuristic than psychology does.