katydee comments on Rationality Quotes May 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: katydee 13 May 2013 05:59:09PM 8 points [-]

if you have to choose between two explanations and one gives you an excuse for being lazy, choose the other one.

-Paul Graham

Comment author: ChristianKl 16 May 2013 11:01:41PM 0 points [-]

Is he basically proposing to do the opposite of Occam's razor?

Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 16 May 2013 11:22:52PM * 6 points [-]

No, he's correcting for a self-serving bias in the way humans generate explanations.