Indeed. That would imply that our shared goal of raising the sanity waterline would cause most of the population to drown :)
Mind you, I like that the OP is asking what the consequences would be. However my guess is: more people making slightly better decisions some of the time, and with no obvious mechanism for “letting other things slip”, I don’t see a downside.
What if the problem isn’t that it’s too cognitively taxing, but that, applied in the sloppy way most people apply their heuristics, it could lead to irrational choices or selfish behavior?
People already make irrational choices. I don’t think teaching them one way to mitigate that could make things worse. What’s the opposite of status quo bias? I might have some of that, whatever it is :)
Indeed. That would imply that our shared goal of raising the sanity waterline would cause most of the population to drown :)
Mind you, I like that the OP is asking what the consequences would be. However my guess is: more people making slightly better decisions some of the time, and with no obvious mechanism for “letting other things slip”, I don’t see a downside.
What if the problem isn’t that it’s too cognitively taxing, but that, applied in the sloppy way most people apply their heuristics, it could lead to irrational choices or selfish behavior?
People already make irrational choices. I don’t think teaching them one way to mitigate that could make things worse. What’s the opposite of status quo bias? I might have some of that, whatever it is :)
Upvoted because I rather like that phrasing :)