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Tilt as Moral Outrage and Limbic Override
This blog is about the intersection between poker, rationality, and life. Poker is hard far out of proportion to the strategic complexity of the game, because it is so good at invoking our irrationalities and biases. This makes it an … Continue reading
Posted in cognitive biases, rationality
Tagged evolutionary morality, evolutionary psychology, mike caro, tilt
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Good decisions rather than good outcomes
One of the many reasons why poker is a good rationality training game is that it contains randomness, and thus requires probabilistic thinking. We humans are very bad at such thinking. For example, our emotional associations are, by default, about … Continue reading
Rational Poker 