You're looking at Less Wrong's discussion board. This includes all posts, including those that haven't been promoted to the front page yet. For more information, see About Less Wrong.

Stefan_Schubert comments on [Link] Algorithm aversion - Less Wrong Discussion

17 Post author: Stefan_Schubert 27 February 2015 07:26PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (31)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: Stefan_Schubert 27 February 2015 10:37:24PM 1 point [-]

Haha yes that did strike me too. However, I suppose there could have been other explanations of people's unwillingness to trust algorithms than a cognitive bias of this sort. For instance, the explanation could have been that experts conspire to fool people that they are in fact better than the algorithms. The fact that people mistrust algorithms even in this case, where there clearly wasn't an expert conspiracy going on, suggests that that probably isn't the explanation.