Gabriel comments on Open Thread, September 1-15, 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Gabriel 05 September 2012 05:10:19PM 0 points [-]

I'm aware of cognitive restructuring. Note that I haven't said that introspection is completely useless or even that the specific type of introspection you describe is totally impossible, just that you are very confident about it and there's a common pattern of extreme overconfidence.