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-9 Post author: dfranke 12 April 2011 01:55AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 13 April 2011 06:26:42PM 2 points [-]

All in the service of bizarrely attempting to refute my point, which is an elementary point about word meanings that any English speaker should be be aware of, that the word "correct" has more than one meaning, and that "factually true" is only one, and clearly not the one meant.

Did Eliezer write any post about the abuse of cleverness to promote stupidity? Seeing as citing Eliezer posts seems to be a shortcut to karma fortune.

Comment author: Desrtopa 13 April 2011 06:29:34PM 4 points [-]

Knowing about biases can hurt people is the first thing that comes to mind.