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RichardKennaway comments on Open thread, Oct. 26 - Nov. 01, 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Daniel_Burfoot 28 October 2015 02:48:49AM 2 points [-]

That would apply to all attention direction of modern humans.

Sure, we're biased in many ways, but we're especially biased about quarrels. A political argument in the EEA could be a matter of life or death; in the modern world it has almost no importance whatsoever.