Qiaochu_Yuan comments on Open thread, July 16-22, 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion
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Should we even call this a bias? They're both unfortunate, but they're also both reasonable Bayesian updates.
Good point. They are generally useful heuristics that sometimes lead to unnecessary conflicts.