komponisto comments on Rhetoric for the Good - Less Wrong

49 Post author: lukeprog 26 October 2011 06:52PM

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Comment author: komponisto 25 October 2011 02:45:10PM 0 points [-]

The objection is not to the category restriction, but to the connotative implication of the title that the "fiction" category is significantly populated.

Comment author: eugman 28 October 2011 01:17:26AM 0 points [-]

Personally, I see it as a fair tradeoff: one implies a falsehood in order to prime people to give better answers to a specific question.