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Lumifer comments on “Be A Superdonor!”: Promoting Effective Altruism by Appealing to the Heart - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Lumifer 11 November 2015 04:53:39PM 2 points [-]

Emotions are not in opposition to rationality, and you do not have to bypass rational processes in order to reach the heart.

This is very true. You only need to bypass the head if you want to sabotage the rational process and manipulate people into something their head would have rejected.

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