Viliam_Bur comments on What are the optimal biases to overcome? - Less Wrong
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More meta: "Believing that not achieving our goals is caused by cognitive biases, when it is actually caused by a lack of skills and habits" is a cognitive bias, isn't it?
It only needs some name that would make it easier to remember. Something like: "Nerd Over-Thinking Fallacy".
Nerd over thinking is a different problem and occurs even when the nerds in question don't necessarily believe that the overthinking is useful.
Nope.