ciphergoth comments on Essay-Question Poll: Dietary Choices - Less Wrong

12 Post author: Alicorn 03 May 2009 03:27PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 26 January 2010 07:34:10AM 21 points [-]

became a fair-weather vegetarian

This is... an interesting approach. I wonder how many opportunities for marginal improvement we miss, because to admit there's a problem at all would seem to demand complete action by the bright lines of morality and guilt.

Comment author: ciphergoth 27 January 2010 08:20:33AM 1 point [-]

It's difficult to do because in the absence of a bright clear line, we experience preference reversals when close up to the decision, which we rationalize.

Alicorn's "not all therefore not some" is definitely along the right lines as a name for this failing.