Jayson_Virissimo comments on Overconfident Pessimism - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 28 November 2012 04:36:05AM 0 points [-]

I thought through precisely those same explanations myself. Currently, I'm leaning towards overconfidence bias being one of those "biases" that is easy to reproduce in the artificial situations created in the laboratory, but that diminishes quickly with feedback (like would usually happen in the "real world").