I’m confused by your confusion, given that I’m pretty sure you understand the meaning of cognitive bias, which is quite explicitly the meaning of bias drawn upon here.
A cognitive bias, according to the page you link to, is “a systematic pattern of deviation from norm or rationality in judgment”.
This article is not, as I understand it, proposing that human general intelligence is built by piling up deviations from rationality. It is proposing that human general intelligence is built by piling up rules of thumb that “leverage [] local regularities”. I agree with Steven: those are heuristics, not biases. The heuristic is the thing you do. The bias is the deviation from rationality that results. It’s plausible that in some sense our minds are big interlocking piles of heuristics, fragments of cognition that work well enough in particular domains even though sometimes they go badly wrong. It is not plausible that our minds are piles of biases.
I’m confused by your confusion, given that I’m pretty sure you understand the meaning of cognitive bias, which is quite explicitly the meaning of bias drawn upon here.
A cognitive bias, according to the page you link to, is “a systematic pattern of deviation from norm or rationality in judgment”.
This article is not, as I understand it, proposing that human general intelligence is built by piling up deviations from rationality. It is proposing that human general intelligence is built by piling up rules of thumb that “leverage [] local regularities”. I agree with Steven: those are heuristics, not biases. The heuristic is the thing you do. The bias is the deviation from rationality that results. It’s plausible that in some sense our minds are big interlocking piles of heuristics, fragments of cognition that work well enough in particular domains even though sometimes they go badly wrong. It is not plausible that our minds are piles of biases.