David_Gerard comments on Logical fallacy poster - Less Wrong

7 Post author: Utopiah 20 April 2012 02:07PM

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Comment author: David_Gerard 20 April 2012 10:33:25PM 3 points [-]

But, at least in my own experience, the sanity waterline of (say) an undergraduate dorm is typically so low that hanging something like this on the wall for communal reference might tend to improve the level of conversation.

Indeed. It's easy to fall into the Nirvana Fallacy and forget just how stupid humans are by nature and how just considering these points would lead to a significant rise in the waterline.