NancyLebovitz comments on Link Sharing Thread - April '11 - Less Wrong

20 Post author: Alexandros 11 April 2011 09:03AM

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 11 April 2011 06:18:25PM 0 points [-]

This Is Why You'll Never Be an Adult has a clue about how grandiosity can make motivation collapse.

My Boyfriend Doesn't Have Ebola... Probably is good about the difficulties of communicating qualia.

However, I think they're mostly brilliantly funny about neurotic states of mind rather than an obvious rationalist resource.

Comment author: Armok_GoB 11 April 2011 06:33:13PM 1 point [-]

how's not being obviously rational an argument against it? Linking rationalists to somehting they might have just rejected as irrelevant otherwise and pointing out how to learn from it seems more valuable than just pointing at somewhere so obvious they'd have found it themselves eventually no matter what.