stcredzero comments on Epistemic vs. Instrumental Rationality: Case of the Leaky Agent - Less Wrong

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Comment author: stcredzero 08 May 2009 04:50:12PM 2 points [-]

Perhaps this explains why people so often have distorted self-perceptions. For example, in the dating game, an inflated self perception amounts to a higher 'minimum.' Perhaps most distorted self-perceptions have evolutionary origins that are based on this mechanism?