loqi comments on Open Thread: February 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: loqi 05 February 2010 07:17:11PM 3 points [-]

But it's preferable to be wrong.

Comment author: bgrah449 05 February 2010 07:24:34PM 0 points [-]

For who? Quote from my comment:

Publicly failing in the quantity necessary to maximize your learning growth is very low-status and not many people have the stomach for it.

We have preferences for what we want to experience, and we have preferences for what those preferences are. We prefer to prefer to be wrong, but it's rare we actually prefer it. Readily admitting you're wrong is the right decision morally, but practically all it does is incentivize your debate partners to go ad hominem or ignore you.

Comment author: loqi 05 February 2010 07:39:31PM 6 points [-]

We prefer to prefer to be wrong, but it's rare we actually prefer it.

Well, if I prefer to prefer being wrong, then I plan ahead accordingly, which includes a policy against ridiculous karma games motivated by fleeting emotional reactions.

but practically all it does is incentivize your debate partners to go ad hominem or ignore you

So my options are:

  1. Attempt to manipulate the community into admitting I'm right, or
  2. Eat the emotional consequences of being called names and ignored, in exchange for either honest or visibly inappropriate feedback from my debate partners.

I'll go with 2. Sorry about your insecurities.

Comment author: michaelkeenan 15 February 2010 12:54:07PM 2 points [-]

But how can you have any self-respect, knowing that you prefer to feel right than be right? For me, the feeling of being being wrong is much less-bad than believing I'm so unable to handle being wrong that I'm sabotaging the beliefs of myself and those around me. I would regard myself as pathetic, if I made decisions like that.

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