wedrifid comments on Positive Thinking - Less Wrong

20 Post author: Swimmer963 07 March 2011 01:03AM

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Comment author: Swimmer963 08 March 2011 05:02:41PM 0 points [-]

I am way on the end of the Harmony spectrum. I like lively discussion, but I hate conflict. I don't know if you've read Eliezer's Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, but at one point the main character has to learn how to 'lose' and admit that other characters are right. I read that part and thought 'that's my default already.' This probably makes it harder for me to be a rationalist.

Comment author: wedrifid 08 March 2011 07:37:59PM 1 point [-]

This probably makes it harder for me to be a rationalist.

I suspect less so than being on the opposite end of said spectrum. Of course being towards the middle and being able to play both sides is almost all the way to be. :)