Alejandro1 comments on New study on choice blindness in moral positions - Less Wrong

73 Post author: nerfhammer 20 September 2012 06:14PM

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Comment author: MaoShan 24 September 2012 02:05:27AM *  22 points [-]

...Confronted with a choice between (a) "the person asking me directions was just spontaneously replaced by somebody different, also asking me directions," and (b) "I just had a brain fart," I'll consciously go for (a) every time, especially considering that I observe similar phenomena all the time (people spontaneously replacing each other immediately after having encountered them). ...

I'm curious, why do you take that view?

Comment author: Swimmer963 24 September 2012 03:05:53AM 3 points [-]

Am I the only one who's really confused that this comment is quoting text that is different than the excerpt in the above comment?

Comment author: Alejandro1 24 September 2012 03:43:45AM 10 points [-]

Shhhhh! You're ruining the attempt at replication!