PhilGoetz comments on Don't Revere The Bearer Of Good Info - Less Wrong

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Comment author: PhilGoetz 22 March 2009 12:37:18AM *  5 points [-]

I think that's inevitable, if for no other reason that someone reading two treatments of one subject that they don't completely understand is likely to interpret them in a correlated way. They may make similar assumptions in both cases; or they may understand the one they read first, and try to interpret the one they read second in a similar way.