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

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Comment author: TheAncientGeek 28 February 2015 01:24:55PM *  0 points [-]

In other words, epistemic rationality is not instrumental rationality.

Most people here like science and everything around it so eliminating cognitive biases is EXTREMELY important in order to reach their goal.

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.

Comment author: [deleted] 28 February 2015 04:30:43PM 0 points [-]

The potential rewards of epistemic rationality for a society are very high.

Are they for the individual, too? There's only two parents for each child.