Raemon comments on Issues with the Litany of Gendlin - Less Wrong

16 Post author: Raemon 10 December 2011 05:25AM

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Comment author: Raemon 10 December 2011 06:25:29AM 4 points [-]

You feel like crap.

There's a lot of related scenarios. I'm sure for each one you can explain why it's ultimately beneficial to have faced the Hard Truth, but that doesn't change the fact that you will feel like crap for a while, and for most people "not feeling like crap" is a fairly strong component to their utility function.

Comment author: shokwave 10 December 2011 11:28:18AM 0 points [-]

You feel like crap.

This doesn't unpack it enough for me. I think you're just getting at the problems of bounded rationality - it's really easy to claim that someone who refuses to believe the bad things about the world is happier. Scott Aaronson is pertinent.