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

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Comment author: Haladdin 24 September 2012 05:15:37PM 2 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,"

Schizophrenia. Capgras Delusion.

I wonder how schizophrenics would comparatively perform on the study.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 25 September 2012 02:35:36PM 8 points [-]

A man who'd spent some time institutionalized said that the hell of it was that half of what you were seeing was hallucinations and the other half was true things that people won't admit to. Unfortunately, I didn't ask him for examples of the latter.

Comment author: thomblake 25 September 2012 03:31:54PM 1 point [-]

Unfortunately, I didn't ask him for examples of the latter.

Or perhaps fortunately!

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