gwern comments on The Apologist and the Revolutionary - Less Wrong

159 Post author: Yvain 11 March 2009 09:39PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 27 February 2012 11:59:27AM 1 point [-]

But I suppose you (like most long-time LWers) had already very few rationalizations to start with. Maybe if a person with a median-or-larger amount of beliefs-in-belief and doublethink tried that, they'd be more likely to have a “Whom am I kidding? I know there's no dragon in my garage actually” moment.

Comment author: gwern 27 February 2012 04:26:46PM 12 points [-]

It's hard to believe I would have none. It probably just doesn't work if you don't have that very specific type of brain damage.