Good-story bias

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