sketerpot comments on Rationality Quotes August 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: sketerpot 14 August 2011 08:01:01PM 6 points [-]

The thing that fascinates me is that irrationality is something you're generally not equipped to recognize in yourself while it's happening.

One of the really nice things about studying human rationality is that, with practice, you can learn to recognize when you're being irrational a lot more often than you otherwise would. Irrationality isn't something that just happens to us, and we're not powerless.