TheAncientGeek comments on Are Cognitive Biases Design Flaws? - Less Wrong
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In other words, epistemic rationality is not instrumental rationality.
The potential rewards of epistemic rationality for a society are very high.
However, it doesn't follow that everyone needs to be an epistemic rationalist, and it also doesn't necessarily follow that anyone has to remove all their biases individually, since biases can be allowed to cancel out in collective rationality.
Are they for the individual, too? There's only two parents for each child.