Will_Newsome comments on How do you notice when you're rationalizing? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Will_Newsome 02 March 2012 10:16:39AM 0 points [-]

Cue: Any time I decide that it wouldn't be worth my time to closely examine counterarguments or evidence against a live hypothesis. This normally takes the form of a superficially plausible cost/benefit analysis with a conclusion along the lines of "if you examined every single crackpot theory then you wouldn't have any time to look at things that mattered", which can largely only be justified by a rationalized working model of how mental accounting works.