Diversifying Across Strategies
One reason we are constantly on the hunt for new strategies is that humans, as a species, have a really hard time functioning outside of our cognitive biases. Biases aren’t necessarily a moral failing – they’re not a failing at all, when you really think about some of them. Maybe confirmation bias is a tendency that was selected for among our distant ancestors because individuals with the disposition to make some rough, if somewhat unjustified inferences were better at catching prey…
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
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