Luke_Grecki comments on Vipassana Meditation: Developing Meta-Feeling Skills - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 19 October 2010 12:02:32AM *  2 points [-]

More charitably, the original confusion probably started from interpreting wedrifid's comment as arguing for status quo, followed by an argument against status quo that would be correct given that assumption.

FWIW I think that is how I understood wedrifid's comment, though I failed to articulate this when you asked me about my purpose.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 19 October 2010 12:06:50AM 2 points [-]

Then, it's incorrect that in context your argument was vacuous, since if one says that 2+2=5, it's still worth arguing that 2+2=4, however obvious that is. On the other hand, motivated cognition was still probably the cause of interpreting wedrifid's comment that way.