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gwern comments on Mike Darwin on Steve Jobs's hypocritical stance towards death - Less Wrong
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Dunno; ask the normals. But I've read it so many times that they must have some such attitude.
Normals have a problem there. When a death is fresh and on everyone's minds, you're supposed to be nice rather than care about facts, truth and accuracy. But by the time you're allowed to care about those things, nobody is paying attention any more.
It is an anachronism from prehistory when the dead were presumed spirits, capable of hearing you speaking ill of them, and retaining power to injure you. The motivation is primal fear.