simplicio 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: simplicio 24 September 2012 11:50:04AM 10 points [-]

Missed it on the first read-through, heh. Excellent try.

Comment author: [deleted] 24 September 2012 10:28:01PM 3 points [-]

I didn't notice until I read Swimmer963's comment. I did remember reading its parent and did remember that it said something sensible, so when I read the altered quotation I thought I had understood it to be ironic.