Cayenne comments on The 5-Second Level - Less Wrong
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Don't cherish being right, instead cherish finding out that you're wrong. You learn when you're wrong.
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And under this model, we like learning because...?
Well, it isn't being wrong that you cherish under Cayenne's model, just finding out about it so that you can correct it. To put it in other terms, being wrong is bad, but learning that you are wrong is good, because all of a sudden something gets shifted out of the "unknown unknown" category.
This is it exactly!
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I prefer to cherish being right enough that I appreciate finding out that I was wrong. It feels like more of a positive frame! (And the implicit snubbing to the typical "don't care about being right" injunction appeals.)