Do you wish there's a god?

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What real cognitive biases did we have to work against to invent computers? Did we have to work against cognitive biases to invent the wheel, or figure out how to make a fire?

Yes. Cognitive biases are active in everything we do. Regarding computers, the bias towards realism is at odds with the conclusions of quantum mechanics, the understanding of which, and the rejection of our bias toward realism, were required in order to create computers and to productively design and improve them. The fact that you are unaware of this simply makes you an ignorant twat.

Perhaps, people have have a variety of marginal biases, the sort they can easily set aside, if need be. Sort like a slight preference, like I slightly wanted a boy rather than a girl for our first kid. Or at work I might slightly preferred a conclusion to match my hypothesis, but it’s not the methods of the investigation that caused me to set aside my bias. It’s that these sort of bias are they type we can set aside prior to our evaluations, we don’t hold them strongly enough, but rather quite weakly, that we can set them off on the side.

It’s not the scientific methods that actually corrects for biases, but rather the very nature of the biases themselves.

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At work.

Wait?

What 'Cognitive biases' did we have to work against in regards to computers?

Oh the jaded youth of today.

Those who were never asked by their 1940's educated grandparents the unanswerable question back in the late 1970's early 1980's of;

"What poseible good is this 'Thing' going to be?"

When we, now, of thirty years hind sight take the internet and emerging self piloting vehicles for granted.

Heck, check back into even further history of Charles Babbage and the Lady Lovelace in regards to the potential analog computing possibilities missed in the 1800's.


What biases indeed.

That’s like the other day, I picked a fancy tapas spot for dinner for a bunch of guy friends, and some of them were complaining about “how good could tapas be? The portions are so small, and not filling, and don’t taste that good” And they tried it was the best food experience they ever had, they were surprised by how good it was.

Scientific method to the rescue! Thanks science.