nshepperd comments on Flashes of Nondecisionmaking - Less Wrong

28 Post author: lionhearted 27 January 2014 02:30PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 28 January 2014 12:30:38PM 2 points [-]
Comment author: nshepperd 28 January 2014 01:06:37PM *  1 point [-]

This is a valuable response to the obvious interpretation, but perusing the source material (here) it looks like the quote was actually meant to describe psychological phenomena like habit formation, which is fairly reasonable. Probably. The source seems rather mysticised.