Jonathan_Graehl comments on Group rationality diary, 7/23/12 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Jonathan_Graehl 24 July 2012 05:32:48PM 0 points [-]

This is really cool.

However, if you'd read omens from chicken entrails and it made you feel better, that would also have been equally cool :)

(it may be a necessary technique to manage your emotions to actually rationally evaluate expectations, if you're sufficiently steel-minded that prayers and omens don't work for you)

Comment author: Kingoftheinternet 24 July 2012 09:41:20PM 5 points [-]

I, for one, applaud and admire wsean for basing his emotions on Bayes' theorem instead of bird organs.

Comment author: gwern 24 July 2012 10:17:36PM 8 points [-]

I don't believe you; the gizzard this morning told me to be wary of things online.