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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) ???
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.