khafra comments on Three more ways identity can be a curse - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Adele_L 28 April 2013 06:20:46PM 7 points [-]

This is a great post.

One thing that annoys me slightly is the part where you try to tie your post to Buddhist ideas. Unless you are talking to a group with a significant number of Buddhists to help minimize inferential distance, there is not really a reason to through that in.

Comment author: khafra 30 April 2013 09:49:14PM 1 point [-]

Unless you are talking to a group with a significant number of Buddhists to help minimize inferential distance, there is not really a reason to through that in.

Another reason would be if you had a self-identity as someone conversant in and sympathetic to Buddhist views, and wanted an audience of your peers to approve of that image.