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Viliam comments on Emotional tools for the beginner rationalist - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Viliam 11 October 2015 03:22:39PM *  3 points [-]

So what exactly was the thing that at the beginning made you watch Dawkins et al. on youtube? Was it something like "Oh, these people have weird (and obviously wrong) beliefs, but they seem so sure and talk about many things... let's watch how far they can get before they get hit with an evidence they can't process?"

Essentially, what motivated you to spend your time watching someone you believed was wrong?