JGWeissman comments on Defecting by Accident - A Flaw Common to Analytical People - Less Wrong

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Comment author: JGWeissman 03 December 2010 12:25:20AM 1 point [-]

But seriously, I want to get to the bottom of this. Eliezer writes about how when he was fundraising, lots of people wrote in to criticize, but no one was comfortable publicly announcing and praising the cause and expressing their donation.

There is a wide middle ground between being uncomfortable saying out loud the good things you believe about a cause you donate to, and being unwilling to criticize something without also finding something nice to say about it.