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I'm happy to use heuristics, but Victorian England also included uncomfortable starched collars and crinolines; having yourself mummified is not a great deviati

by psd1 3y ago

I'm happy to use heuristics, but Victorian England also included uncomfortable starched collars and crinolines; having yourself mummified is not a great deviation. Fortunately you and I live in an age where we dispose of each other's dead meat by incinerating it, which is absolutely sane and logical. Thinking should always be automatically suspect. Wetware isn't very good at it. That's why heuristics are a good idea: if we reason about whether or not someone's opus is correct, we can end up confidently wrong.

Turing_Machine 3y ago
> I'm happy to use heuristics, but Victorian England also included uncomfortable starched collars and crinolines; having yourself mummified is not a great deviation. Oh, but it was. Wearing a starched collar in Victorian England did not make you a weirdo by the standard of the times, while having yourself mummified did. I personally like people who are a little weird, but I don't pretend that they're not weird. And yes, a lot of human behavior seems weird when seen from a distance.