tcpkac comments on Neural Categories - Less Wrong

24 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 10 February 2008 12:33AM

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Comment author: tcpkac 10 February 2008 08:53:02AM 1 point [-]

The primary categorisation is "Threat / Not a threat", and the main categorisation bias is "Better safe than sorry". You'll find that many of your specific categorisation biases are particular examples of that. Examples are : nervousness about your Great Thing being a cult, Asch experiment situations where you have to join the group or stick out from it. Diagram 1b has 'Threat' written all over it.....