DanielLC comments on Positive Bias: Look Into the Dark - Less Wrong

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Comment author: DanielLC 09 January 2012 01:53:54AM 0 points [-]

We're good at reasoning with social situations, and bad with more abstract situations. As such, we can't be doing them the same way. Something that helps in social situations is unlikely to cause a bias in more abstract situations.

In other words, our current architecture was developed in the context of social situations, and the fact that we do significantly better in those situations shows that it's the only time we use it. Otherwise, we use different, lousy architecture that won't exhibit the same biases.