JulianMorrison comments on Extenuating Circumstances - Less Wrong

34 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 06 April 2009 10:57PM

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Comment author: JulianMorrison 07 April 2009 01:54:41AM 11 points [-]

Wow. I will immediately adopt that. "It's never a forgivable extenuating circumstance if you can see it".

Interesting corollary: if you seem to be stuck, perhaps there's an "extenuating circumstance" you're not seeing - and you ought to look for it, perhaps by trying to simulate a 2nd person perspective.