Yes, “not equals”, but compression is necessary for reality-mapping, which is one of the key components of rationality as defined at the beginning of this post. There’s a great quote on this:
“We can take this huge universe, and put it inside a very tiny head—you fold it.”
The thing is, humans do the compression thing very naturally. The heuristics and biases researchers’ innovation was that we suffer from specific mental illnesses such as overconfidence, confirmation bias, tribal politics, rationalizing after we’ve written the bottom line, etc.
Yes, “not equals”, but compression is necessary for reality-mapping, which is one of the key components of rationality as defined at the beginning of this post. There’s a great quote on this:
The thing is, humans do the compression thing very naturally. The heuristics and biases researchers’ innovation was that we suffer from specific mental illnesses such as overconfidence, confirmation bias, tribal politics, rationalizing after we’ve written the bottom line, etc.
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That’s, um, hardly my own innovation...