Vaniver comments on How to deal with someone in a LessWrong meeting being creepy - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vaniver 08 September 2012 06:15:53AM *  10 points [-]

Of course, but you don't get surprised when we turn out to be a bunch of apes after all.

The function of JoeW's comment is not informing you "I put P(LWers behaving badly)<.05" but "If I remind LWers of a virtue they profess to like, they may alter their behavior to be more in line with that virtue."