fubarobfusco comments on Minor, perspective changing facts - Less Wrong

38 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 22 April 2013 07:01PM

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Comment author: fubarobfusco 24 April 2013 03:46:34PM 0 points [-]

Sounds like a sort of double-counting. "If I stopped believing the bad side of town is the bad side, then I might go over there and get mugged!"

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 24 April 2013 07:08:27PM 4 points [-]

I don't think that's necessarily it, I think it's more like "avoiding that section of town costs me so little that I don't want to bother to think about whether avoiding it makes sense".