DavidAgain comments on Some potential dangers of rationality training - Less Wrong

18 Post author: lukeprog 21 January 2012 04:50AM

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Comment author: DavidAgain 22 January 2012 12:16:15PM 0 points [-]

Yup. I imagine that there are some cases where you can get the benefits without the costs but I'd doubt that it's always the case. It seems perfectly plausible that sometimes happiness/success relies on genuinely not knowing or not thinking about the truth.