sketerpot comments on SotW: Check Consequentialism - Less Wrong

38 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 29 March 2012 01:35AM

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Comment author: novalis 24 March 2012 05:04:50PM 2 points [-]

Maybe the easiest way to teach it is to teach how it applies to others. That is, train people to catch nonconsequential reasoning in arguments that others make, and then hope that they apply that to themselves. The easiest way to do that is by reflexively asking, "so what?"

Comment author: jmmcd 26 March 2012 09:36:52PM 0 points [-]

Nice. Many people are much better at criticising others than finding the same flaws in themselves.