Bruno_Coelho comments on Let's be friendly to our allies - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Bruno_Coelho 15 August 2012 12:13:51PM 3 points [-]

In some cases, be nice with someone makes them to maintain epistemic states their future self probably not want to be in. In this case, every time you shut up about a err or wrong belief, you lose.

It's not mutually exclusive being nice and pursuing truth. but If part of LWers downvoted Todd post, is for some reason. Even if the altruistic movement are based in good data.

Making clear, I support 80k, but like any other movement who tried to save the world; takes time to visualize the benefit.

Comment author: JGWeissman 15 August 2012 01:04:18PM 0 points [-]

In some cases, be nice with someone makes them to maintain epistemic states their future self probably not want to be in. In this case, every time you shut up about a err or wrong belief, you lose.

Note that I said "Provided we think they are pursuing their aligned goals effectively, we should be excited about this." I did not see any complaints that they are not pursuing their goals effectively, or that they are in a bad epistemic state.

If part of LWers downvoted Todd post, is for some reason.

Yes, and I have argued that the one articulated reason is not a good one.