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Eugine_Nier comments on "What-the-hell" Cognitive Failure Mode: a Separate Bias or a Combination of Other Biases? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 25 February 2013 11:50:08PM 1 point [-]

I suspect the reason is that we're using brain mechanism that evolved to enforce/evade social rules, and there one big failure is better than lot's of small ones.