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oce@jlai.lu ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I’ve read a nice book from a French skepticism popularizer trying to explain the evolutionary origin of cognitive bias, basically the bias that fucks with our logic today probably helped us survive in the past. For example, agent detection bias make us interpret the sound of a twig snapping in the woods as if some dangerous animal or person was tracking us. So we put an intention or an agent behind a random natural occurence. This could also be what religions grew from.

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