Vulture comments on Rationality Quotes April 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vulture 28 April 2012 03:04:31AM 4 points [-]

Human beings have been designed by evolution to be good pattern matchers, and to trust the patterns they find; as a corollary their intuition about probability is abysmal. Lotteries and Las Vegas wouldn't function if it weren't so.

-Mark Rosenfelder (http://zompist.com/chance.htm)