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I downvoted because one of the chiefly repeated themes of the sequences and LW is that rationality is about winning, not about following your preconceptions about what logic means to your defeat, nor about making excuses.
It's insulting and rather ignorant that summerstay associated LW with the type of person Munroe was mocking. That type of person is pretty much the opposite of what LW is about.
It is certainly the opposite of our ideal. Practice sometimes falls short.
"Falling short" means not finishing first in the race. This is more like running in the opposite direction.
Whatever. Here's a recent example of the error.