RobinZ comments on Doublethink (Choosing to be Biased) - Less Wrong

33 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 14 September 2007 08:05PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 08 December 2010 04:06:47AM 1 point [-]

Well, then why does he say self-delusion is impossible? It's not only possible, it's usual.

Comment author: RobinZ 08 December 2010 10:07:35PM 2 points [-]

I am under the impression that much of Eliezer Yudkowsky's early sequence posts were writted based on (a) theory and (b) experience with general-artificial-intelligence Internet posters. It's entirely possible that his is a correct deduction only on that weird WEIRD group.