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May I make a human advancement suggestion which has very little to do with technology? Teach about cognitive bias. Tech it at a fundamental level -- like, star
by nkoren 10y ago
May I make a human advancement suggestion which has very little to do with technology?
Teach about cognitive bias. Tech it at a fundamental level -- like, starting in 1st grade, with annual refreshers thereafter. Give cognitive bias an equal place at the table alongside reading, writing, and arithmetic.
Many cognitive biases are deeply rooted in biological and social structures -- but with awareness and training, they can be overcome. Without awareness and training, they can be profoundly destructive, and certainly limit the scope of human advancement.
So before we start pimping out our metacortexes or whatever, let's see if we can't overcome some of the less salutary whisperings of our old and honestly pretty useless reptilian brains. We can be better than that.
- woodman 10y agoA method for overcoming cognitive bias is a technology, in the same way that spoken language is a technology. See formal logic. But if we were somehow, as a species, constrained to doing one thing at a time on the tech tree - then yes, we would do well to max that tech out asap.
- abiox 10y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases it could be challenging to avoid all or even most of those. i wonder if i just fell prey to one or more.