AspiringKnitter comments on I Was Not Almost Wrong But I Was Almost Right: Close-Call Counterfactuals and Bias - Less Wrong

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Comment author: AspiringKnitter 09 March 2012 01:17:54AM 6 points [-]

"this is lightweight humor, you're supposed to read it with most of your empathy turned off"

Ever since reading The Sword of Good, I've lost the ability to do that. Not that I was ever great at it. I wonder if that's happened to anyone else. /irrelevant tangent

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