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…
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
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