diegocaleiro comments on Rationality quotes: June 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: diegocaleiro 12 June 2010 07:55:28AM 3 points [-]

Not only to recognize my mistakes, but to actually speak outloud about them frequently has given me great strengh in doing it in questions that really matter. If you have social status, it is worth sparing some change in getting used to not only being wrong, but being socially recognized as wrong by your peers...

Comment author: BenAlbahari 13 June 2010 08:40:49AM 3 points [-]

If you have social status, it is worth sparing some change in getting used to not only being wrong, but being socially recognized as wrong by your peers...

Emperor Sigismund, when corrected on his Latin, famously replied:

I am king of the Romans and above grammar.