[ben_w]

> Though those biases probably came about for good reasons, it could be they've become obsolete and are no longer worth it.

I suspect (but don’t know how to test the hypothesis) that cognitive biases are why human learning can produce good results with dramatically less data than machine learning. More rational, yes, when you get there; but harder to learn at all.

[wavegeek]

> biases might help

You might like the book "Simple Heuristics that make us smart" which explores this idea

https://www.amazon.com/Simple-Heuristics-That-Make-Smart/dp/...

[riwsky]

thing is, those cognitive biases are themselves the result of eons of learning via evolutionary optimization

[ben_w]

No disagreement there! But, at the risk of cargo-culting, it might be interesting to see the effect of deliberately trying to reproduce such biases in an A.I.