gwern comments on Rationality Quotes - July 2009 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 17 July 2009 01:52:17AM 0 points [-]

"For there is no error so crooked, but it hath in it some lines of truth;

Nor is any poison so deadly, that it serveth not some wholesome use."

"Of Truth in Things False", Proverbial Philosophy, Martin Farquhar Tupper

Comment author: wedrifid 31 July 2009 11:44:11PM 2 points [-]

The message tempts me, but I have to remind myself that no matter how creative I am with my positive interpretations... sometimes bullshit is just better left as bullshit.