Caledonian2 comments on Something to Protect - Less Wrong

52 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 30 January 2008 05:52PM

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Comment author: Caledonian2 05 February 2008 02:49:28PM -1 points [-]

Aesthetics are rarely a topic when rationality is discussed. Mostly because they're only relevant to ancient-Greek-style thought.

On the list of things likely to cause unreasonable attachment, it's pretty far down. Love of familiarity, wanting to appear intelligent to others, wanting to appear intelligent to oneself, unwillingness to face conclusions that one finds unpalatable, general inflexibility... these are all plausible causes of failure. But aesthetics?