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Knowing About Biases Can Hurt People — LessWrong

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Once upon a time I tried to tell my mother about the problem of expert calibration, saying: “So when an expert says they’re 99% confident, it only ha…

x Knowing About Biases Can Hurt People — LessWrong Against Rationalization Pitfalls of Rationality Fallacies Rationalization Valley of Bad Rationality Information Hazards Motivational Intro Posts Heuristics & Biases Rationality Frontpage 250 Knowing About Biases Can Hurt People by Eliezer Yudkowsky 4th Apr 2007 3 min read 82 250 Once upon a time I tried to tell my mother about the problem of expert calibration, saying: “So when an expert says they’re 99% confident, it only happens about 70% of the time.” Then there was a pause as, suddenly, I realized I was talking to my mother, and I hastily

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