TimS comments on Beware Trivial Inconveniences - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TimS 29 March 2013 07:48:57PM 0 points [-]

These lines of thinking seem to be a pretty big rationalization risk.

I agree with this, but am confused by your criticism of the evaporative cooling metaphor. Rationalization and mechanisms for a group to become more extreme are not the same topic.

Comment author: fubarobfusco 30 March 2013 04:14:47AM 0 points [-]

I wasn't responding to the evaporative-cooling metaphor.