The difference in optimisation targets between LW and H&B researchers is an important thing to point out, and probably the main thing I'll take away from this post.

Biases can:-

• Be interesting to learn about
• Serve an academic/political purpose to research
• Give insight into the workings of human cognition
• Be fun to talk about
• Actually help to achieve your goals by understanding them

And the correlations between any 2 of these things need not be strong or positive.

Is it the halo effect if we assume that a more interesting bias will better help us achieve our goals?