Alicorn comments on Anticipation vs. Faith: At What Cost Rationality? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Alicorn 15 October 2009 01:34:22AM 1 point [-]

It's not as strong an effect as taking a sugar pill while thinking it's a useful drug (or taking an actual useful drug), but it's sure not nothing. The brain is a complicated thingamajig.