Desrtopa comments on Teachable Rationality Skills - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Desrtopa 08 June 2011 01:01:39AM 2 points [-]

That's more or less what I argued (not that they deserve it, but that they'd be better off occasionally thinking about activities they usually put on autopilot,) but eventually I decided that it wasn't worth the trouble their discomfort caused me when dealing with them. It wasn't a high utility use of social capital.