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

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Comment author: aausch 16 October 2009 02:11:40AM 3 points [-]

If someone offered to tell me the Real Story, saying, "Once you learn the Real Story, you will lose your grasp of that which you once called 'anticipation'; the concept will dissolve, and you will find it difficult to remember why you ever once believed such a notion could be coherent; just as you once lost 'time'," I would indeed reply "Tell me, tell me!"

What about this situation:

"As a significant shortcut to developing an understanding of the Real Story, you can follow a formula which begins with a forced loss of your grasp of that which you once called 'anticipation'. I can promise that, once you do understand the Real Story, you will find it difficult to remember why you ever once believed the notion of 'anticipation' could be coherent. I have never found it useful to think about reversing the shortcut formula, so I cannot promise that the process is reversible"

Comment author: MichaelVassar 16 October 2009 09:50:35PM 2 points [-]

I'll do that too. Lots of chemicals can help with this.