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prase comments on [SEQ RERUN] Two Cult Koans - Less Wrong Discussion

4 Post author: MinibearRex 30 November 2011 04:19AM

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Comment author: prase 30 November 2011 10:59:31AM *  1 point [-]

Read: agreeing to put on the silly hat is evidence that you desire to resolve your cognitive dissonance (strength of the desire being at least proportional to unpleasantness of wearing a silly hat)

Comment author: James_Miller 30 November 2011 01:46:24PM 0 points [-]

I know the master said this but isn't the more likely reason why Ougi put on the hat because his master told him to meaning that if Ougi had no cognitive dissonance he would have still put on the hat? I don't understand how the master determined that Ougi putting on the hat showed that Ougi had cognitive dissonance.

Comment author: prase 30 November 2011 04:07:15PM 0 points [-]

if Ougi had no cognitive dissonance he would have still put on the hat

Well, the master said that wearing the hat is necessary in order to resolve the dissonance. Therefore this seems implausible.

(Ougi is the name of the master in that story.)