Cyan comments on Common Errors in History - Less Wrong
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Did not downvote.
Could you make the connection to rationality more explicit? (I don't mean in the post necessarily; a reply here in the comments would satisfy me.)
I wanted to see if reading a list of common errors could reveal common ways of making errors.
I'm frankly peeved that I went to the trouble of finding this difficult-to-obtain book that sounded relevant to LW, reading it, and summarizing it, just to get instantly karma-slammed for my troubles.
Ahh! That makes much more sense. The best version of this in the post is:
Which I took to mean that the focus was only on the pamphlet and not that this was part of some bigger project/test/idea or whatever.