lavalamp comments on More "Stupid" Questions - Less Wrong

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Comment author: lavalamp 31 July 2013 10:33:16PM *  5 points [-]

For someone with my "brain type" music is obvious bad.

OK, sure.

It drains attention while giving nothing back.

IMO, this is confabulation. Maybe it's your true rejection, but I think it's much more probable (80%ish?) that your brain randomly came up with this story while trying to figure out why you dislike music. The part of your brain that generates reasons doesn't necessarily have access to the part of your brain that generates likes/dislikes.

Comment author: James_Miller 31 July 2013 10:58:31PM 4 points [-]

The story my brain came up with along time ago when I was a teenager was that I was too intelligent to enjoy music or other people were just pretending to enjoy it. (I could have used LW back then.)

Comment author: lavalamp 31 July 2013 11:25:27PM 1 point [-]

I think your new story is less harmful but probably equally true. :)