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Kaj_Sotala comments on Reasons for someone to "ignore" you - Less Wrong Discussion

23 Post author: Wei_Dai 08 October 2012 07:50PM

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Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 09 October 2012 07:47:53AM 6 points [-]

I'm not sure if this has happened to me with regard to LW comments, but I've certainly experienced this with replying to e-mails.

Comment author: cata 09 October 2012 09:40:12PM *  6 points [-]

Yes, this has really fucked me up with emails, phone calls, and letters more so than anything like LW comments. Luckily, I've largely overcome it nowadays through conscious TDT-style reasoning.

It's pretty reassuring to know that other people suffer from the same ridiculously dumb problem.

Comment author: DaFranker 10 October 2012 05:18:44PM *  1 point [-]

My problem is that I need to train myself such that whenever a case like that happens, I actually consider the problem in an appropriately rational state of mind and apply TDT-style reasoning. Otherwise, I just make fake commitments that don't register and never get executed.

This sounds like something important to train for in general though.