MichaelHoward comments on The Mistake Script - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MichaelHoward 09 March 2009 10:04:42PM *  1 point [-]

As I said, I wouldn't want to consciously do such a thing. But our brains are a messy spaghetti-coded hack, with vital systems inherited from reptiles, written by a blind idiot, and not exactly built for objectively debating how to override nature and de-bias itself. An informal and grotesque flow diagram is what I'd expect to get if I tried to formalize what my mind was really up to when trying to rationally judge and study these posts.

Comment author: Johnicholas 09 March 2009 11:11:00PM 1 point [-]

I agree with this post completely.

However, you didn't answer my question. I asked "Would you claim that you are growing more rational?"

Comment author: MichaelHoward 09 March 2009 11:57:08PM *  1 point [-]

Ah. Yes, I'm pretty sure this blog and her older sister have made me more rational since I clumsily stumbled into the latter, and that's probably involved the informal flow diagrams in my head becoming a little less grotesque through maintenance.