DanArmak comments on You Be the Jury: Survey on a Current Event - Less Wrong

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Comment author: DanArmak 18 December 2009 10:08:31AM 1 point [-]

She will, no doubt, be right about things on occasion, by accident. But I'm starting to feel better about the reliability of my "shortcut to truth." :)

Most real-life issues admit of more than two answers. It's just the political and media approach to paint things as black and white.

In other words: reversed falsehood is not truth. You can't get at the truth by taking the opposite position from Ann Coulter. Because the vast majority of statements don't have a single opposite position.

So while you can judge her always wrong, it will only help you to be right by dismissing her opinions, not by suggesting the right ones.

Comment author: k3nt 18 December 2009 03:08:47PM 0 points [-]

Of course. It's an exceedingly limited heuristic and valuable only in rare circumstances.