MichaelVassar comments on Diseased thinking: dissolving questions about disease - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MichaelVassar 31 May 2010 04:14:57PM 5 points [-]

Great point. in real life one should usually look for the best available option when considering a potentially costly change rather than just choosing one hard contrarian choice on a multiple choice test. The fact that we have conflicting intuitions on a point is probably evidence that better 'third way' options exist.