lukeprog comments on Rationality Quotes May 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: lukeprog 14 May 2013 08:20:57PM 9 points [-]

If we think of an intuition pump as a carefully design persuasion tool, we can see that it might repay us to reverse engineer the tool, checking out all the moving parts to see what they are doing... consider the intuition pump to be a tool with many settings, and "turn all the knobs" to see if the same intuitions still get pumped when you consider different variations.

Daniel Dennett

Comment author: Jack 14 May 2013 08:21:49PM 1 point [-]

Is this from the new book?

Comment author: lukeprog 14 May 2013 08:33:57PM 1 point [-]

Yes.

And yes, it's great.