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: pnrjulius 09 June 2012 12:15:26AM 0 points [-]

I'm concerned that this technique will just make people able to come up with lots of bad reasons to do things, thus making them better at rationalization. I feel like we would be better off encouraging people to come up with good reasons, and then perhaps comparing them to bad reasons.