army1987 comments on Rationality Quotes February 2013 - Less Wrong

2 Post author: arundelo 05 February 2013 10:20PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 10 February 2013 03:56:08PM 0 points [-]

The kind I mean is the kind where reality feels awful or crushingly disappointing if it's not the way it "ought" to be

“need”

Comment author: pjeby 11 February 2013 02:05:45AM 1 point [-]

“need”

Nope, the thing I'm talking about is closer to what the Buddhists would call an "attachment", and some Buddhist-influenced writers call an "addiction". (Others would call it a "desire", but IMO this is inaccurate: one can desire something without being attached to actually getting it.)