Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Proverbs and Cached Judgments: the Rolling Stone - Less Wrong

15 Post author: Annoyance 01 April 2009 03:40PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 01 April 2009 05:16:32PM 1 point [-]

Yes, the original reply is a cached thought. The invented rationalization is not, unless they heard it at the same time.

Comment author: [deleted] 11 December 2013 09:24:46AM 0 points [-]

unless they heard it at the same time

I'd expect anybody who is told what the proverb means to be told why it means that too.