wedrifid comments on Two questions about CEV that worry me - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 29 December 2010 11:33:01AM 0 points [-]

This strikes me as a difficult thing to know,

It strikes me as a tendency that can either be observed as a trend or noted to be absent.

and the motives that lead to assuming it are not particularly pleasant.

This strikes meas a difficult thing to know. And distastefully ironic.

Comment author: Vaniver 29 December 2010 02:17:35PM *  0 points [-]

This strikes meas a difficult thing to know.

There are a large number of possible motives that could lead to assuming that the people in question are simply wrong. None of them are particularly pleasant (but not all of them are unpleasant). I don't need to know which motivates them in order to make the statement I made. However, the statement as paraphrased by TheOtherDave is much more specific; hence the difficulty.

As a more general comment, I strongly approve of people kicking tires, even if they're mine. When I see someone who doesn't have similar feelings, I can't help but wonder why. Like with my earlier comment, not all the reasons are unpleasant. But some are.