sfb comments on Rationality Quotes: March 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: sfb 06 March 2011 05:38:19PM 6 points [-]

It also allows us to anticipate ill consequences which don't happen, and suffer them in advance. Sometimes repeatedly.

(And by "allows us to", I also mean "it often does so automatically").