Alicorn comments on Scott Aaronson's "On Self-Delusion and Bounded Rationality" - Less Wrong

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Comment author: CronoDAS 19 August 2009 02:49:16AM 4 points [-]

If only Eric had had a better response to this:

"What you're saying is tantamount to saying that you want to fuck me. So why shouldn't I react with revulsion precisely as though you'd said the latter?"

then maybe tragedy would have been averted?

Comment author: Alicorn 19 August 2009 02:55:04AM *  11 points [-]

Agreed. Eric displayed so little ability to react to oddness. Perhaps, "Why would you react with revulsion if I expressed the desire to fuck you? If it's because of cultural expectation or because you would interpret such an expression as an indication that I'm generally abrupt and crass, then the analogy fails to hold."