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OrphanWilde comments on Public Service Announcement Collection - Less Wrong Discussion

37 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 27 June 2013 05:20PM

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Comment author: OrphanWilde 28 June 2013 12:05:28AM 1 point [-]

The politics experiment, I'll willingly admit, was a failure, which is why I dropped it. But I don't think it created any serious animosities.

It would be a useful post to participate in, I think. For a site about rationality, we don't talk here much about emotions. That's kind of... an interesting blind spot.

Comment author: Epiphany 28 June 2013 02:03:49AM 1 point [-]

That's kind of... an interesting blind spot.

It may be quite important since strong emotions can be such a huge motivating force to do irrational things before you've thought everything out.

Comment author: OrphanWilde 28 June 2013 03:31:00AM 1 point [-]

They don't just motivate you to do different things, they cause different thoughts to form, to occur to you.