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

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Comment author: Will_Newsome 02 March 2012 10:16:28AM 6 points [-]

Orthogonal: Noticing when you're rationalizing is good, but assuming that you might be rationalizing and devising a plan of information acquisition and analysis that is relatively resilient to rationalization is also a safe bet.

Comment author: khafra 02 March 2012 04:16:47PM 2 points [-]

A rationalization-robust algorithm like that sounds like a good subject for a discussion post.