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

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Comment author: Will_Newsome 11 August 2012 12:48:53AM *  6 points [-]

are useless for pretty much any question of practical importance

Worse than useless, give illusion of insight.

(And I feel like many comments on this post are sort of exemplary of that problem—as you put it in a different context, the equivalent of magic healing crystals are being talked about in a frighteningly serious manner.)