handoflixue comments on Learned Blankness - LessWrong

130 Post author: AnnaSalamon 18 April 2011 06:55PM

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Comment author: handoflixue 27 April 2011 12:15:46AM 2 points [-]

"cooking isn't scary at all! Look at all these reasons why kitchens are fun and non-scary".

For what it's worth, I tend to say the same thing about both cooking and computers, so I'd suspect it's less a flaw with the analogy and more that this is a common reaction to saying "X is scary" to someone who is good with X. I even get this when I mention my phobias to people.