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atucker comments on Some Morals from the Study of Human Irrationality [Link] - Less Wrong Discussion

2 Post author: XiXiDu 18 January 2011 03:56PM

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Comment author: atucker 19 January 2011 03:33:20AM 0 points [-]

It's definitely valuable, but I feel like it leaves out some ideas (which may or may not be included in your other paragraphs, and if they are you can just interpret this as simple praise).

Like, why beliefs need to be entangled with the world. Or the map/territory dichotomy, and how some false things will feel true because of cognitive biases and cognitive dissonance. Or how a lot of times people use beliefs for signaling.

Most religious people I talk to actually believe that God exists in the universe, but don't realize how they don't actually anticipate anything different because of him.