MugaSofer comments on Scientific Self-Help: The State of Our Knowledge - Less Wrong

138 Post author: lukeprog 20 January 2011 08:44PM

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Comment author: MugaSofer 05 January 2013 09:06:19PM *  -1 points [-]

Peterdjones specifically claimed that people were taking the universal exaggeration into account in their estimations. If he is correct in this, then it's not deceptive to exaggerate. If he is incorrect, then it is deceptive, which is the hypothetical I was discussing in the first place, so see my comments above.