lessdazed comments on "Politics is the mind-killer" is the mind-killer - Less Wrong

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Comment author: lessdazed 26 January 2012 06:57:09PM -1 points [-]

we're likely to be voting for biased reasons.

Downvoted for fallacy of gray, and because I'm feeling ornery today.

Comment author: thomblake 26 January 2012 07:17:57PM 2 points [-]

There's no fallacy of gray in there. Since votes count just as much in the thread, and our votes will be much more noisy, it would often be best to refrain from voting there. If anything, I might have expected to be accused of the opposite fallacy.

Comment author: lessdazed 27 January 2012 11:10:40PM 0 points [-]

and our votes will be much more noisy

This qualification makes it not the fallacy of gray. If that qualifier was implicit from context above, I simply missed it.

Comment author: thomblake 29 January 2012 07:05:26PM 1 point [-]

I still don't see how that would relate to the fallacy of gray:

"The world isn't black and white. No one does pure good or pure bad. It's all gray. Therefore, no one is better than anyone else."

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