drethelin comments on Where to Intervene in a Human? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: drethelin 04 July 2012 06:33:00AM 0 points [-]

Posting vague advice about not doing stupid things is stupid. Don't do it, it will get downvoted. The reason it's stupid is that everyone already KNOWS that it's bad to do stupid things. The stupid things we do are not done in the knowledge that they are stupid. "Figure out what you're doing that's stupid" is basically the entire point of this site, and you're hiding an awful lot of knowledge and complexity in a simple order.

Comment author: wedrifid 04 July 2012 07:29:08AM *  0 points [-]

Posting vague advice about not doing stupid things is stupid. Don't do it, it will get downvoted.

I upvoted it. It's a useful thing to constantly remind yourself of.