NancyLebovitz comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread - Less Wrong

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 08 June 2010 01:00:58AM 3 points [-]

Motivated cognition would also be a special case of belief overkill-- it's being too ready to develop and accept arguments what you want to believe. Belief overkill is the same process applied to arguments from both yourself and other people.