Swimmer963 comments on Get Curious - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Giles 26 February 2012 12:19:07AM 0 points [-]

This is all good stuff, but it makes curiosity sound complicated. I thought that the point of using curiosity as a hook into epistemic rationality is that once you feel the emotion of curiosity, your brain often just knows what to do next.

Also curiosity feels good.

Comment author: Swimmer963 26 February 2012 01:31:20AM 0 points [-]

Curiosity in itself isn't necessarily complicated, and yes it feels good, but a lot of times, for a lot of people, it doesn't happen by itself. And it sounds like the process of producing curiosity in oneself is more complicated than simply feeling it naturally.