Gabriel comments on Open Thread, October 20 - 26, 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Gabriel 27 October 2013 02:26:56PM 1 point [-]

and can also be totally rational (life actually does suck titanium balls)

It's a mistake to assign truth values to emotions. They can't be correct or incorrect, they can be only helpful or unhelpful. And I don't think depression is ever helpful, barring convoluted thought experiments.