wedrifid comments on Five-minute rationality techniques - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 10 August 2010 10:48:45AM 1 point [-]

I like 1 and 3 but I'm dubious about 2. I am not convinced that it is true in the case of most humans. I'd like it to be but most people live sufficiently in a social reality that actually being right is not all that important.

Comment author: NihilCredo 11 August 2010 03:28:46PM *  2 points [-]

"Learning the right answer is better than having come up with the wrong one"?