Alicorn comments on Less Wrong Q&A with Eliezer Yudkowsky: Ask Your Questions - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Alicorn 18 November 2009 03:31:52AM 1 point [-]

I am typically only drawn to forbidden things when I do not know why they are forbidden, or know that they are forbidden for stupid reasons and find the forbidden thing a desideratum for other reasons. In the first case, it's a matter of curiosity - why has someone troubled to forbid me this thing? In the second, it's just that the thing is already a desideratum and the forbiddance provides no successfully countervailing reason to avoid seeking it.