orthonormal comments on Trivers on Self-Deception - Less Wrong

33 Post author: Yvain 12 July 2011 09:04PM

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Comment author: orthonormal 13 July 2011 04:59:52AM 11 points [-]

Discussions of signaling usually make the opposite assumption: that our stated (and mentally accessible) reasons for actions are false.

I think it's more accurate to say "often irrelevant" than "false".