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A slightly less charitable reading is that the tremendous high comes from what is termed, in the politesse of social psychology, "commitment" and "consistency" and "cognitive dissonance";
Eliezer, what is your opinion on this? Do you think it's worth to do an extra effort to discover and really understand something you could read in the library? Or is it just a cognitive dissonance effect you will get?