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kpreid comments on What's the name of this cognitive bias? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: kpreid 06 July 2013 05:09:48PM 20 points [-]

This seems explainable as a simple heuristic — “routes containing retracing-your-steps are likely to be less efficient than other options” — which happens to be wrong in this case.