## Cognitive - In simple examples like: - day of lilipads doubling to fill pond, machine to generate insight is failing you - we fail to answer correctly. how come? - wrong optimization of two methods of thinking ### [[Belief perseverance]] ### Explaining how humans are inherently rational but can still act irrationally - competence vs performance - we are distorted by performance errors - a lot of the time we fail to meet our competence - the mistakes people make in these experiments are performance based - but this means we all have the level of competence for rational beings - we are fundamentally rational