CytokineStorm comments on The scourge of perverse-mindedness - Less Wrong

95 Post author: simplicio 21 March 2010 07:08AM

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Comment author: CytokineStorm 21 March 2010 11:40:35PM *  4 points [-]

So facts can fester because you only allow yourself to judge them by their truthfulness, even though your actual relation with them is of a nonfactual nature.

One I had problems with: Humans are animals. It's true, isn't it?! But it's only bothering people for its stereotypical subtext. "Humans are like animals: mindless, violent and dirty."

Festering facts?

Comment author: orthonormal 22 March 2010 12:15:11AM 2 points [-]

Ah yes, it's time to dust off YSITTBIDWTCIYSTEIWEWITTAW again. Er, make that ADBOC.

Comment author: CytokineStorm 22 March 2010 12:19:17AM 0 points [-]

Oops, sorry about that.

Comment author: wedrifid 22 March 2010 02:31:15AM 1 point [-]

"Humans are like animals: mindless, violent and dirty."

Well... that's got a significant element of truth to it too, but I need not be bothered about that either.