Douglas_Knight comments on Stupid Questions Thread - January 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 15 January 2014 06:50:10PM 1 point [-]

Okay. But that still makes it sound like there would almost never be actual real-life cases where you could clearly say that the person exhibited circular preferences? At least I can't think of any real-life scenario that would be an example of the way you define "bad" circular preferences.

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 29 January 2014 01:05:45AM 0 points [-]

I can't find it anymore, but years ago I found on LW a recording of an interview with someone who had exhibited circular preferences in an experiment.