Dorikka comments on Rationality Quotes May 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Dorikka 04 May 2013 09:35:26PM 2 points [-]

One of the things that I dislike about aphorisms is that they sometimes compress insight so much that it's not easy to see what they were actually saying. I intuitively think that this is sometimes done because sounding deeply wise is often high status.