The term “cognitive biases” is arguably misleading in that it suggests that believing truth would be a kind of default. Arguably, it’s amazing that we manage to believe the truth at all. If you want your beliefs to be accurate, you’re constantly swimming against your own biology and instincts.Broadly speaking, I think we can identify three reasons... See more

fantastic essay on epistemology humans are coherence-maximisers, not truth-seekers the trouble is that depending on your priors, a coherent explanation - a simple story that fits together well, isn't well correlated with being useful or true - https://t.co/XjutOAjCm5... See more