gwern comments on Rationality Quotes March 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 01 March 2012 05:58:13PM 18 points [-]

"Hope always feels like it's made up of a set of reasons: when it's just sufficient sleep and a few auspicious hormones."

--Alain de Botton

Comment author: Will_Newsome 03 March 2012 01:51:57AM 8 points [-]

(Perhaps this individual quote is insightful (I can't tell), but this sort of causal analysis leads to basic confusions of levels of organization more often than it leads to insight.)

Comment author: michaelcurzi 27 March 2012 02:47:24PM 0 points [-]

Can you give an example of how that leads to confusions about levels of organization?