Hindsight bias

Eliezer Yudkowskylesswrong.comWritten August 20073 min read

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Yudkowsky argues that knowing an outcome makes it look far more predictable than it was, so after disasters like Challenger and 9/11 we learn overly specific lessons and underestimate the real cost of caution.

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