malcolmocean comments on Pattern-botching: when you forget you understand - Less Wrong

31 Post author: malcolmocean 15 June 2015 10:58PM

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Comment author: malcolmocean 16 June 2015 06:13:25AM 0 points [-]

Hmmm. Yeah. Although I guess maybe the issue is that system 1 has misclassified, whereas system 2 is fine...

Comment author: eternal_neophyte 16 June 2015 06:38:55AM 0 points [-]

Sounds like a failure of the representativeness heuristic then, which isn't quite so nice a phrase as "pattern botching".