shokwave comments on Evolutionary psychology as "the truth-killer" - Less Wrong

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Comment author: shokwave 26 July 2012 06:52:19AM 0 points [-]

FWIW a punch on the arm is much easier than a slap.

Comment author: mwengler 26 July 2012 02:13:08PM 0 points [-]

And a punch on the arm is much easier to overlook than a slap. The point, had I been able to do it, would have been that my determinism-believing arguer had a POWERFUL intuition that I was the cause of his getting slapped, not some long sequence of dominoes falling against each other that started long before I was even conceived.

Comment author: shokwave 26 July 2012 06:18:13PM *  0 points [-]

And a punch on the arm is much easier to overlook than a slap.

But a punch is much harder to overlook than a suppressed action!

The point, had I been able to do it, would have been that my determinism-believing arguer had a POWERFUL intuition that I was the cause of his getting slapped

I agree; a punch would have caused perhaps a less powerful intuition, but it would have caused the intuition you desired nonetheless.

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