Unknowns comments on Boredom vs. Scope Insensitivity - Less Wrong

37 Post author: Wei_Dai 24 September 2009 11:45AM

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Comment author: Unknowns 25 September 2009 08:20:37PM 3 points [-]

There is an evolutionary function to having feelings about feelings, and the function is that if your feelings are not helping you, you tend to feel bad about them, and then you might do something to change them. It is quite possible and people do it frequently.