anonym comments on Heuristic is not a bad word - Less Wrong

8 Post author: HughRistik 06 April 2009 06:55AM

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Comment author: anonym 12 April 2009 05:43:33PM *  1 point [-]

Mostly A, and a little of D. The term heuristic has positive connotations to me, since it brings to mind Polya and related ideas more than it does cognitive bias. I know that many cognitive biases are a result of heuristics being applied inappropriately, but I think of that more in terms of our abusing heuristics (which are still great) than there being some inherent problem or negative aspect of the heuristics themselves.