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Lumifer comments on If you could push a button to eliminate one cognitive bias, which would you choose? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Lumifer 16 April 2015 05:28:42PM 4 points [-]

The point is that traditions, especially long established traditions, generally do in fact contain good advice.

I think the point is weaker: long established traditions do not contain self-destructive advice and contain good advice for the times in which they were created. If the circumstances have changed sufficiently, the advice of ancient traditions could, in fact, be bad.