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Comment author: Yvain 01 September 2012 02:20:44PM 56 points [-]

Do unto others 20% better than you expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error.

-- Linus Pauling

Comment author: gwern 01 September 2012 07:14:46PM 18 points [-]

Citation for this was hard; the closest I got was Etzioni's 1962 The Hard Way to Peace, pg 110. There's also a version in the 1998 Linus Pauling on peace: a scientist speaks out on humanism and world survival : writings and talks by Linus Pauling; this version goes

I have made a modern formulation of the Golden Rule: "Do unto others 20 percent better than you would be done by - the 20 percent is to correct for subjective error."

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