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Thursday, October 27, 2016

Chris Dillow — Resisting asymmetric Bayesianism


Turns out that debate is often not rational. Because cognitive bias.

Stumbling and Mumbling
Resisting asymmetric Bayesianism
Chris Dillow | Investors Chronicle

2 comments:

  1. The problem is you can't be immune and rational and impartial unless you are sociopath and your brain doesn't work properly to make you interact with others nicely.

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  2. The problem is you can't be immune and rational and impartial unless you are sociopath and your brain doesn't work properly to make you interact with others nicely.

    Good point. "Rational" is often taken as the standard of human, but rational doesn't imply humane. There's more to life than reason. Reason is a tool and therefore a means rather than an end.

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