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

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Comment author: SilasBarta 11 August 2009 06:00:57AM 1 point [-]

Hey, take it up with pjeby if you think you understand the issue better, it's well beyond my pay grade at this point. He linked to a peer-reviewed paper substantiating the certainty thesis.

You should at least consider the possibility that OCDers really do just need to be more sure, and the number-based rituals are simply the result of them having noticed that that number comforted them in the past, and then cargo-cultishly inferring that the number is somehow special.