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

12 Post author: AnnaSalamon 02 March 2012 07:28AM

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Comment author: AnnaSalamon 02 March 2012 07:46:54AM 4 points [-]

Let's also try the converse problem: what cues tip you off, in real life, that you are actually thinking, and that there is actually something you're trying to figure out? Please stick such cues under this comment.

Comment author: shokwave 03 March 2012 11:17:45PM 2 points [-]

Cue for actual thinking: I spontaneously produce lines of research, not lines of argumentation. I feel relief when I can classify a problem as "already decided by empirical data" and I begin to seek that data out.