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Cog­ni­tive bias

TagLast edit: 25 Apr 2022 22:31 UTC by Leo

A cognitive bias is a systematic deviation from ideal reasoning.

Further reading

Yudkowsky, Eliezer (2008) Cognitive biases potentially affecting judgement of global risks, in Nick Bostrom & Milan M. Čirkovič (eds.) Global Catastrophic Risks, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 91–119.

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