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Biases are either "hot” (that is, produced by the agent's motivational system) or "cold” (more similar to optical illusions).
Jon Elster
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The ceremonial (hot or cold) as opposed to the haphazard (lukewarm) characterizes piety.
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Twixt devil and deep sea, man hacks his caves; Birth, death; one, many; what is true, and seems; Earth's vast hot iron, cold space's empty waves.
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