roland comments on Rationality Quotes: October 2009 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: roland 22 October 2009 07:12:43PM *  17 points [-]

People often lack the discipline to adhere to a superior strategy that doesn't "feel" right. Reasoning in a way that sometimes "feels" wrong takes discipline.

-- Michael Bishop, Epistemology and the psychology of human judgement

Comment author: MichaelBishop 24 October 2009 09:24:04PM 1 point [-]

For the record, I'm not the Michael Bishop that so expressed this insightful point.