jooyous comments on Rationality Quotes May 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: jooyous 27 January 2013 12:26:02AM 2 points [-]

I've been trying to change my impulse to think "this person is an idiot!" into "this person is a noob," because the term still kinda has that slightly useful predictive meaning that suggests incompetence, but it also contains the idea that they have the potential to get better, rather than being inherently incompetent.