Is it any harder to understand than why some people experience as a negative stimulus being told they have a fatal illness, or stepping on a scale and discovering they weigh more than they’d like, or being told that there are termites in their walls?
But it’s a phenomenon that we as rationalists should resist. If I am dying, or fat, or living with termites, I want to know—after all, there may be something I can do about it.
Is it any harder to understand than why some people experience as a negative stimulus being told they have a fatal illness, or stepping on a scale and discovering they weigh more than they’d like, or being told that there are termites in their walls?
No harder, because it’s the same phenomenon.
But it’s a phenomenon that we as rationalists should resist. If I am dying, or fat, or living with termites, I want to know—after all, there may be something I can do about it.
Absolutely agreed.