pnrjulius comments on SotW: Avoid Motivated Cognition - Less Wrong

20 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 28 May 2012 03:57PM

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Comment author: chepin 01 June 2012 11:25:01AM *  1 point [-]

EXERCISE

Ask the person to do an unpleasant task (dishwashing standing on slippery floor), which will cause the unconscious desire to finish the task.

While the task is executed, the person answers questions which can be TRUE or FALSE, the task only ends if the person complete a certain number of TRUE responses, but if the answers are wrong, it decreases the score for the task.

Comment author: pnrjulius 09 June 2012 12:12:14AM 0 points [-]

it affects the punctuation at the end.

What do you mean by that?

Comment author: chepin 09 June 2012 11:33:01PM 0 points [-]

The comment was modified, thanks for the observation