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Comment author: ChristianKl 05 November 2014 11:55:00AM -1 points [-]

Ah. You did mention something about "mindkilled", right?

Mind killed means that someone is using ineffective heuristics. You can follow pretty irrational heuristics and still get the correct answer by luck.

Comment author: Lumifer 05 November 2014 04:17:28PM 4 points [-]

Mind killed means that someone is using ineffective heuristics.

No. "Mindkilled" means that someone is not amenable to reason.

Comment author: ChristianKl 05 November 2014 04:26:32PM -2 points [-]

Not being amenable to reason is following an irrational heuristics for determining truth.

And the main point still stands regardless. You can get the right answer even when you are not amenable to reason.

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