You kind of miss the point. If you can’t apply underdog and over dog narratives which humans love constructing to an example the heuristics has nothing left to do.
Doh, that wasn’t my intention. I’m taking up the habit of providing simple examples for claims like “seems completely irrelevant in many other contexts”. Edited a bit for clarity.
Re deflating flattery, it does seem great for that, but I think it’s screened off by enough other useful things (like thinking of something in Game Theory terms) that I hope most LWers have already learned at least one of them.
Doh, that wasn’t my intention. I’m taking up the habit of providing simple examples for claims like “seems completely irrelevant in many other contexts”. Edited a bit for clarity.
Re deflating flattery, it does seem great for that, but I think it’s screened off by enough other useful things (like thinking of something in Game Theory terms) that I hope most LWers have already learned at least one of them.