aceofspades comments on Why truth? And... - Less Wrong

47 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 27 November 2006 01:49AM

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Comment author: thomblake 27 June 2012 07:25:04PM *  1 point [-]

that's all that needs to be said

Would that this were true.

Indeed, if that were all there was to it, nothing would need to be said at all, as that's a tautology. But people manage to fail at noticing when things do / don't work anyway, and false ideas stick around a very long time.

Comment author: aceofspades 05 July 2012 06:31:46PM 0 points [-]

I just find it very unlikely that the specifics of how this post is constructed have much of an effect on correcting this issue.