Viliam_Bur comments on Are Cognitive Biases Design Flaws? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Viliam_Bur 26 February 2015 09:14:41PM 1 point [-]

Adaptation takes time. Maybe the environment is changing faster than the organs evolve. Also, evolution finds local optima, not global ones, so it can get stuck at suboptimal designs which any incremental changes would only make worse.