This is what I mean when I say humans need a redesign. Our innate cognitive biases are silly.https://twitter.com/rygorous/status/811343641847296002 …
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Amy Dentata Retweeted Fabian Giesen
This is what I mean when I say humans need a redesign. Our innate cognitive biases are silly.https://twitter.com/rygorous/status/811343641847296002 …
Amy Dentata added,
Consult some behavioral economists and rewrite the brain so we're not so silly. That's a good start.
Rationality doesn't mean lacking emotion. But uprooting some evolved cognitive biases wouldn't hurt.
Our economics as a species are bizarre because of millions of years of evolution. We've got innate perceptual distortions all over the place
We're smart enough to figure this out, but not currently smart enough to fix the problem at the root. I personally feel it's a necessity.
"Survival of the species"-level necessary. Our current brain wiring has predictable failure points.
Keep in mind—cognitive bias is really low-level stuff. It can impact higher-level functions, but I'm not like "engineer these beliefs away!"
Because 1) you can't, and 2) even basic low-level stuff is beyond our ability rn.
But I personally believe that if we don't find a way to smooth out the quirks of the homo sapien brain within ~100 years, we're toast.
amy the singular of homo sapiens is homo sapiens, sapiens isn't a plural noun it's an adjective, also fuck Mike Mignola for this
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