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Somebody should write an “encyclopedia of copes and rationalizations” Copes and rationalizations are both much more interesting and I think more analytically sound mental models than “biases”
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“Cognitive biases” is the most overrated idea I’ve ever encountered. Like everyone else I was impressed when I first encountered them in ~2005. Now I think they are ontologically ill-posed, not-even-wrong in terms of analytical “insights” and cancerous as normative scaffolding.
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Things tagged as copes and rationalizations don’t pretend to be anything more than they are — little narrative patterns that form a folksonomy of revealing cognitive tendencies. No shady “experimental” evidence and claims of statistical significance. Just literary observations.
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Not necessarily. Often all we have is copes and rationalizations, and no way to know a meaningful "ground" truth. Are "religion" and "atheism" biases about the afterlife? Both are obviously copes/rationalizations concerning mortality, but it seems silly to call them biases