komponisto comments on Eight Short Studies On Excuses - Less Wrong

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Comment author: komponisto 30 September 2010 11:15:23PM *  0 points [-]
  1. Which of two example wordings should the teacher have used?
  2. Was there anything wrong with what the teacher said?

...You seem to be assuming that the dispute is about the former (which, as you say, we all seem to agree on); my understanding was that it is about the latter.

My assumption is that if A is preferable to B, then there is "something wrong" with B. The level of "wrongness" implied by this mere fact depends on how preferable A is to B, which in turn depends (among other things) on how easy A is to implement.

I suppose that, yes, that means we were arguing about your strength of feeling, but that's exactly what I was trying to do

To which I ask: why?

Comment author: Relsqui 30 September 2010 11:36:11PM *  1 point [-]

My assumption is that if A is preferable to B, then there is "something wrong" with B.

I use a fan to keep my room cool. An air conditioner would do a better job, but what I have is a fan. I don't see anything wrong with using a fan.

To which I ask: why?

For the same reason anybody argues about anything--I disagreed with you, and was looking to either convince you of my reasons or learn new facts which would convince me of yours. But you seem not to want to argue about this, and it's rapidly becoming more stressful than enlightening, so I'm happy to drop it.

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