komponisto comments on You Be the Jury: Survey on a Current Event - Less Wrong

31 Post author: komponisto 09 December 2009 04:25AM

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Comment author: komponisto 10 December 2009 12:48:57AM 4 points [-]

It would be very surprising to choose a decision you agree with as an example of problems with human rationality.

While it may indeed be legitimate to wonder if my having posted this implies anything about my opinion, I'll note that I didn't in this post cite the jury's decision itself as an example of rationality failure, but merely indicated -- in the context of an erupting international controversy and ongoing Internet flamewars --that the whole topic is by nature fraught with obstacles to rationality.