Egan’s law is one the most dangerous biases I’ve ever heard of. It prevents a person from facing reality in those cases in which it turns out that it isn’t normal.
Well, I suppose reality could get pretty abnormal. And yet, it would still all add up to normality—that is, my model of reality should explain my observations, even if that model was “it’s all a big acid trip.” Getting around that would need something like a violation of causality.
Egan’s law is one the most dangerous biases I’ve ever heard of. It prevents a person from facing reality in those cases in which it turns out that it isn’t normal.
How would reality go about being not normal? Or more specifically, what is normal, if not reality?
Well, I suppose reality could get pretty abnormal. And yet, it would still all add up to normality—that is, my model of reality should explain my observations, even if that model was “it’s all a big acid trip.” Getting around that would need something like a violation of causality.