magfrump comments on Rationality Quotes February 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: magfrump 13 February 2013 07:01:42PM 3 points [-]

I think the most common human tactic for appearing to care is to lie to themselves about caring until they actually believe they care; once this is in place they keep up appearances by actually caring if anyone is looking, and if people look often enough this just becomes actually caring.