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torekp comments on People who "don't rationalize"? [Help Rationality Group figure it out] - Less Wrong Discussion

12 Post author: Mercurial 02 March 2012 11:38PM

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Comment author: torekp 04 March 2012 08:57:37PM 2 points [-]

Speaking for myself, I think that rationalizing does typically (always?) involve ignoring something. Not ignoring the first piece of inconvenient data, necessarily, but the horrible inelegance of my ad-hoc auxiliary hypotheses, or such.