Viliam_Bur comments on What are the optimal biases to overcome? - Less Wrong

60 Post author: aaronsw 04 August 2012 03:04PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (70)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: Viliam_Bur 09 August 2012 03:06:57PM 4 points [-]

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".

Comment author: wedrifid 09 August 2012 03:12:16PM 3 points [-]

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.

Comment author: nshepperd 09 August 2012 05:34:23PM 2 points [-]

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?

Nope.