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Good-Story Bias
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Optimizing predictions for sounding good as stories, when nature optimizes for no such thing, creates a bias that Nick Bostrom has termed good-story bias.

Blog posts

  • Tell Your Anti-Story by Robin Hanson

External links

  • Tyler Cowen at TEDx Mid-Atlantic 2009-11-05 talking about how our love of stories misleads us (video)

See also

  • Narrative fallacy
  • Generalization from fictional evidence