SilasBarta comments on A Suite of Pragmatic Considerations in Favor of Niceness - Less Wrong

82 Post author: Alicorn 05 January 2010 09:32PM

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Comment author: SilasBarta 05 January 2010 11:45:09PM 3 points [-]

No one wants to be the strident jerk who has to tell the nice person how wrong he is.

No one except me, maybe ...

Comment author: ciphergoth 06 January 2010 10:41:02AM 13 points [-]

The fact that you want to be that person should give you tremendous pause. You've written yourself a rather heroic role - I urge you to consider carefully whether this is really accuracy-maximizing behaviour.

Comment author: sketerpot 07 January 2010 04:14:35AM 3 points [-]

I would want to be the nice person who tells the other nice person how wrong he is. One can be blunt without being unkind.