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

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 10 December 2011 05:04:10PM 0 points [-]

Evidence is a hard problem, especially about emotions, and there are people who want to believe the worst just as there are people who want to ignore the bad news.

Maybe your girlfriend hates you. Maybe she loves you some of the time, but not enough to take the ill effects of her bad temper seriously. The latter is a more complicated situation.

Comment author: wedrifid 10 December 2011 06:57:52PM 1 point [-]

Maybe your girlfriend hates you. Maybe she loves you some of the time, but not enough to take the ill effects of her bad temper seriously. The latter is a more complicated situation.

More complicated for her at least - because in that case she'll actually be sad when I dump her. I find it simplifies things greatly if I concern myself with actual relevant behavior and not speculative model's of internal state.