Toddling comments on Rationality Quotes January 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Toddling 08 January 2013 03:15:57AM 1 point [-]

Rather than teaching people to privilege other people's mental states as an unknowable quality, I think it makes more sense to encourage people to be aware of their degrees of certainty.

Increased awareness of degrees of certainty is more or less what I was thinking of encouraging. It hadn't occurred to me to look for a deeper motive and try to address it directly. This was helpful, thank you.