sketerpot comments on Five-minute rationality techniques - Less Wrong

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Comment author: sketerpot 10 August 2010 03:17:46AM 2 points [-]

Those are catchy! Of course none of those is an explanation that most people can use -- the inferential distance is pretty big -- but they'd make great sound-bite segues to a slightly longer explanation.

If you just hit someone with a zinger like that, it'll feel to them that you're just scoring points, and they might get annoyed; but if you use it as the start of a discussion, that's likely to be perceived as more respectful.