I suppose you’re saying that when a useful heuristic (allowing real-time approximate solutions to computationally hard problems) leads to biases in edge cases, it shouldn’t be considered a bug because the trade-off is necessary for survival in a fast-paced world.
I might disagree, but then we’d just be bickering about which labels to use within the analogy, which hardly seems useful. I suppose that instead of using the word “bug” for such situations, we could say that an imprecise algorithm is necessary because of a “hardware limitation” of the brain.
However, so long as there are more precise algorithms that can run on the same hardware (debiasing techniques), I would still consider the inferior algorithm to be “craziness”.
I suppose you’re saying that when a useful heuristic (allowing real-time approximate solutions to computationally hard problems) leads to biases in edge cases, it shouldn’t be considered a bug because the trade-off is necessary for survival in a fast-paced world.
I might disagree, but then we’d just be bickering about which labels to use within the analogy, which hardly seems useful. I suppose that instead of using the word “bug” for such situations, we could say that an imprecise algorithm is necessary because of a “hardware limitation” of the brain.
However, so long as there are more precise algorithms that can run on the same hardware (debiasing techniques), I would still consider the inferior algorithm to be “craziness”.