TheAncientGeek comments on Your Strength as a Rationalist - Less Wrong
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Good for survival, but not for truth seeking. Epistemic and instrumental rationality are difference things.
And even in terms of survival, human neurology isn't that great. It was good enough to get our species to survive until now, but it's nowhere close to optimal.