roland comments on The Bottom Line - Less Wrong

49 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 28 September 2007 05:47PM

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Comment author: roland 17 April 2013 09:49:33AM 0 points [-]

Your effectiveness as a rationalist is determined by whichever algorithm actually writes the bottom line of your thoughts.

I guess that this algorithm is called emotions and we are mostly an emotional dog wagging a rational a tail.

You might be tempted to say "Well, this is kinda obvious." but from my experience, LW included, most people are not aware of and don't spend any time considering what emotions are really driving their bottom line and instead get lost discussing superficial arguments ad nauseam.