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

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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.