Nick_Tarleton comments on It's okay to be (at least a little) irrational - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 15 April 2009 10:53:09PM *  0 points [-]

If you were akratically compelled to buy the ticket, failure of emotional acceptance. Failure of anticipation control at a deliberative level is the kind of thing that produces statements about invisible dragons. It's hard to think of a plausible way that could happen in this situation – maybe Escher-brained statements like "it won't win, but it still might"?