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orthonormal comments on Stupid Questions Open Thread - Less Wrong Discussion

42 Post author: Costanza 29 December 2011 11:23PM

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Comment author: orthonormal 30 December 2011 06:32:12PM *  1 point [-]

To the (mostly social) extent that concepts were useful to your ancestors, one is going to lead to better decisions than the other, and so you should expect to have evolved the latter intuition. (You trust two friends, and then one of them tells you the other is lying- you feel some consternation of the first kind, but then you start trying to figure out which one is trustworthy.)

Comment author: Armok_GoB 30 December 2011 06:51:27PM 0 points [-]

It seems a lot of intuitions all humans are supposed to have were overwritten by noise at some point...