Cognitive Biases Potentially Affecting Judgment of Global Risks

 
 
 
 
 
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Introduces the field of heuristics and biases, the experimental investigation of systematic human errors and what they reveal about human cognition. Focuses on how known biases may throw off our reasoning about uncertain risks to the human species. Book chapter in "Global Catastrophic Risks", eds. Bostrom and Cirkovic.

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