timtyler comments on Would Your Real Preferences Please Stand Up? - Less Wrong

42 Post author: Yvain 08 August 2009 10:57PM

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Comment author: huono_ekonomi 10 August 2009 09:06:41AM 0 points [-]

Few examples where "unconscious" beats "conscious" hands down are dancing and driving a car.

Comment author: timtyler 10 August 2009 05:39:35PM *  -2 points [-]

A more classical example would be various kinds of illicit sex (underage, across marriage vows, etc). Probably good for the genes - but often needing some rationalisation in the face of conventional moral norms - and sometimes the indvidual's own sense of morality.