tut comments on Absolute denial for atheists - Less Wrong

39 Post author: taw 16 July 2009 03:41PM

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Comment author: tut 18 July 2009 08:32:19AM *  4 points [-]

I am saying that it's not an error.

You are always talking about NLP, so I expect you to know that the meaning of a statement is the reaction it gets in the person you are talking to. So if you are making statements that drive away women then either you mean to drive away women or you are making an error.

Comment author: pjeby 18 July 2009 04:57:50PM 1 point [-]

So if you are making statements that drive away women then either you mean to drive away women or you are making an error.

That's not the type of error Alicorn was talking about, AFAICT. Making a statement that doesn't advance your goals is a different class of error than a linguistic one.