TheOtherDave comments on The Illusion of Sameness - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 22 January 2011 06:54:21PM 3 points [-]

(nod) I used to be really bad at it; I'm now only mildly bad at it. As I say, it's a learnable skill. Training the habit of substituting questions for assertions -- genuine questions, ones that don't presuppose a specific answer -- has worked pretty well for me.