Stefan Pernar wrote:
Now why is that? Cognitive biases could be...
a) ...less fit characteristics of human cognition that did not pose too
big a problem for humanity to make it to the current day (like an
infection prone appendix of the mind - bad but not too bad).
b) ...fitness increasing
Dear list,
I am an avid follower of the Overcoming Biases blog and am posting what I am
about to write for two reasons:
a) I know that several of the authors of the blog are reading this list
b) Biases may hint towards some interesting heuristics for AGI development
From Wikipedia
Stefan,
Biases fall into all these categories. Certainly some biases were
useful in the ancestral environment, and even today.
The key difference however is that an optical illusion is relatively easy
to recognize where a cognitive bias is not.
I'm not so sure. I'd say that optical
The vision problem is provably impossible, so to go from 2d images to a 3d
world representation, your vision system makes assumptions and uses lots of
heuristics. It cannot do otherwise. It works well in environments resembling
that of ancestral adaptation. it makes mistakes (optical illusions)
