The Effect Heuristic: How Rationality Tools Help Us Get By

A lot of the ad hoc heuristics we come up with are pretty decent and would devote all those resources into making a perfectly rational decision maker really make that big of a difference? Or would it just waste resources? So maybe now is a good time to talk about a couple biases that there are rationality tools to kind of get us by. The halo or horns effect thinks less wrong. If you find someone attractive, you'll often think they're smarter. They're better morally. All good things tend to shine and make the other good things look even more good.