billswift comments on Some rationality tweets - Less Wrong

43 Post author: Peter_de_Blanc 30 December 2010 07:14AM

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Comment author: billswift 30 December 2010 09:56:13PM 2 points [-]

We seek a model of reality that is accurate even at the expense of flattery.

My observations suggest that many (maybe even most) people will ignore even pretty substantial inaccuracies for even a little flattery.

Comment author: MBlume 31 December 2010 01:39:15AM 6 points [-]

I think this tweet was overwhelmingly normative rather than descriptive

Comment author: PeterisP 31 December 2010 04:20:20AM 3 points [-]

Then it should be rephrased as 'We should seek a model of reality that is accurate even at the expense of flattery.'

Ambiguous phrasings facilitate only confusion.

Comment author: shokwave 31 December 2010 07:50:58AM * 3 points [-]

I read it as declarative - We (at spaceandgames) seek a model etc etc. Peter isn't the only person on that twitter account.

Comment author: Peter_de_Blanc 31 December 2010 10:40:37AM 2 points [-]

Peter isn't the only person on that twitter account.

How did you figure that out?

Comment author: shokwave 01 January 2011 06:59:10AM 2 points [-]

I misunderstood how retweeting works.