pleeppleep comments on How I Ended Up Non-Ambitious - Less Wrong

113 Post author: Swimmer963 23 January 2012 11:50PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 24 January 2012 03:38:59AM 13 points [-]

Ya know, it's people like you what cause people to spend their lives silent and paralyzed by indecision for fear of making a single social error that they will never be allowed to correct.

Comment author: pleeppleep 24 January 2012 04:04:02AM *  4 points [-]

I think you were fairly justified in changing the title, but i would think people have good reason to fear an error that could never be corrected. Why else would it be valuable to discern the future ramifications of a decision? Also i should probably note that you could correct this if you wanted to, but have insufficient reason to consider this an error. Again, I think the title change was a good thing, but that last comment felt like it was cheating on a site as devoted to precision in argument as we are. Also, Mitchell_Porter's overreaction hardly reveals enough about his character to justify a widespread negative effect on society caused by such personalities.