Algernoq comments on Open Thread, May 26 - June 1, 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Algernoq 30 May 2014 12:21:24AM 0 points [-]

I meant "morally horrified" as shorthand for "high confidence that what is described greatly reduces happiness". If you have a decision-making process that operates without you feeling anything, I would like to hear about it. In that case, you might enjoy reading Gut Feelings, which describes how feelings typically help people accurately make decisions in a time-limited environment. In some scenarios, allowing time to think and reflect resulted in a less-accurate decision-making than relying on snap judgments, for example because time allowed people to assign too much meaning to unreliable information.

While a fun reading in context, they do not represent anything more.

This could be said about any text anyone disagrees with.

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 30 May 2014 04:17:03PM *  0 points [-]

This could be said about any text anyone disagrees with.

No, it really couldn't - not with a similar degree of justification, anyway.

(Why is this a bad comment? Not everything is a fully general counterargument, and the context here is definitely nontrivial!)