Ritalin 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: Viliam_Bur 02 September 2013 02:31:00PM 3 points [-]

Make yourself believe strongly enough that you will invite the officer to check your basement?

Comment author: Ritalin 06 September 2013 07:24:13AM 0 points [-]

Just to be practical, it is better to make yourself believe that you have something embarassing in your basement, such as, say, a (straight) porn stash or undeclared valuables or any other embarassing property that would make the officer sigh and roll his eyes on account of having bigger fish to fry.