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Eugine_Nier comments on How do you notice when you're rationalizing? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 10 March 2012 08:15:49PM 1 point [-]

In rationalization you engage in motivated cognition, this is very similar to what happens in the perpetual motion example.