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Complexity Bias

Complexity Bias

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Colin Wright
Feb 17, 2022
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When faced with chaos, we're prone to perceiving complexity.

This can sometimes help us, as pattern-recognition allows us to find meaning in clutter: we can learn to distinguish the sound of a predator from the sound of prey from the sound of wind moving through the trees, and we can learn to distinguish a good deal from a bad deal when we're shopping fo…

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