SilasBarta comments on Rationality Quotes: October 2009 - Less Wrong

7 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 22 October 2009 04:06PM

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Comment author: SilasBarta 22 October 2009 09:47:32PM * 2 points [-]

That's not picking nits; that's switching out a metaphorical definition mid-discussion for a more literal one, a species of "moving the goalposts".

This is picking nits.

Comment author: eirenicon 22 October 2009 10:08:28PM 2 points [-]

Well, I don't feel bad at all, so obviously you haven't won this argument yet. Unless I'm wrong, of course.

Comment author: wedrifid 23 October 2009 02:39:06AM 3 points [-]

Well, I don't feel bad at all, so obviously you haven't won this argument yet.\

This does much to explain the mechanism by which humans avoid realizing when they are wrong!

Comment author: SilasBarta 22 October 2009 10:40:27PM 0 points [-]

I have a pound of Sweet-n-Sour pork for you to eat, and some scratchy toilet paper that can correct that ...