What if every “cognitive bias” is actually rational behavior under correctly modeled incentives? What if the problem isn’t that people are irrational, but that we’ve been modeling their incentive structures wrong? This isn’t a semantic trick. It’s a testable claim with falsification criteria. If the framework I’m presenting holds, it...

Dec 20, 20251

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James Miller's Shortform

Dec 20, 20251

The Rationality Community’s Rationality Problem: “Irrationality” Is a Modeling Error

What if every “cognitive bias” is actually rational behavior under correctly modeled incentives? What if the problem isn’t that people are irrational, but that we’ve been modeling their incentive structures wrong? This isn’t a semantic trick. It’s a testable claim with falsification criteria. If the framework I’m presenting holds, it...

Dec 20, 20251