Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on That other kind of status - Less Wrong

71 Post author: Yvain 29 December 2009 02:45AM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 30 December 2009 03:35:33AM 7 points [-]

It is a sad fact about this world that most people are mediocre and obscure, so how can they be deluded about that?

Comment author: aausch 30 December 2009 04:46:49AM 4 points [-]

Funny, I always thought of delusions of mediocrity as self-fulfilling prophecies.

Comment author: Technologos 30 December 2009 05:45:32AM 0 points [-]

Both interpretations could be simultaneously true...

Comment author: PhilGoetz 31 December 2009 08:59:32PM 1 point [-]

The non-mediocre may be.