xamdam comments on What Cost for Irrationality? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: xamdam 01 July 2010 07:06:15PM *  3 points [-]

Love the post. Just pointing out that it largely does not answer the X-treme rationality question, (at least as I define it). Regular rationality will do for most of these cases, except perhaps the autism one - there are extreme emotions involved (speaking from personal experience, I fell for the MMR racket for a while due to personal acquaintance of the main doctors involved on top of all the emotions of wanting your kid to get better; it was a real lollapalooza effect).