MrHen comments on Escaping Your Past - Less Wrong

24 Post author: Z_M_Davis 22 April 2009 09:15PM

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Comment author: MrHen 22 April 2009 11:56:38PM 0 points [-]

If project A is what you've always done in the past, even with the knowledge that project B is superior, you can induce that you will probably continue with project A.

Probably, but shouldn't? If project B is superior, is that not the superior choice?

I think I understand the point you are making, I just want to be clear that there is a distinction between what is supposed to happen and what is likely to happen.

Comment author: saturn 23 April 2009 03:56:49AM 1 point [-]

Yes.

To put it another way, the prognosis of recovering irrationalists is, so far, not good.

As I read it, this was the main point of the original post. Most of us (I suspect) still get rather different answers when we honestly ask "what action should I take" and "what action would I take".

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