Prismattic comments on Intro-level training materials for rationality / critical thinking - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Prismattic 24 November 2011 04:16:32AM -1 points [-]

Obnoxious and arrogant is in the eye of the beholder...

This is, for all practical purposes, false. "Obnoxious" and "arrogant" are not properties like "blue" or "spherical" or "rumbling" that correspond to objective phenomena independent of social context.

If you say the ball is spherical and everyone else around you says the ball is cubic, you are almost certainly correct despite being a minority of one.

If everyone around you says that you are obnoxious and arrogant, then you are, in fact, obnoxious and arrogant, even if you beg to difer.