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He says "seeming irrationality". Meaning something that is judged irrational by our logical system, which has limited capacity thus limited information. He say
by proto-n 8y ago
He says "seeming irrationality". Meaning something that is judged irrational by our logical system, which has limited capacity thus limited information.
He says that, if you account for certain biases, the much higher capacity emotional system can be a useful input feature for the final decision.
In summary, don't trust the input of your instincts blindly, it is biased. However, flawed as it may be, it is probably based on much more information than your logical decision, so you should not discard it completely either. Try to account for biases, better yet, train your emotional system for less biased decisions.
- lmm 8y ago> He says "seeming irrationality". Meaning something that is judged irrational by our logical system, which has limited capacity thus limited information. But this fails to acknowledge that very often the reason our emotional system seems irrational is because it is irrational. > He says that, if you account for certain biases, the much higher capacity emotional system can be a useful input feature for the final decision. > In summary, don't trust the input of your instincts blindly, it is biased. However, flawed as it may be, it is probably based on much more information than your logical decision, so you should not discard it completely either. Try to account for biases, better yet, train your emotional system for less biased decisions. That's a very generous reading of the article, and a much better takeaway than anything I got from the article itself. There is value in our emotional systems, but the biases of that system are very real and warrant more attention and caution than the article pays them.
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