"so we are *by nature* prone to flinch from harsh truths and otherwise avoid reality. But maybe if you're extremely motivated and work very hard to resist cognitive temptations, you can overcome them."
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I feel like I definitely know deeply untraumatized people who handle situations well and without stress, and don't get sidelined by emotional considerations, and have those advantages in rationality skill but aren't better at thinking through difficult empirical questions.
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Is that who I should be thinking about as "more rational than the traumatized"?
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some people who start out pretty rational but observably get worse after traumatic events, some people who get traumatized early and stay that way, and a handful who get traumatized and with effort overcome it.
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