anandjeyahar comments on Rationality Quotes October 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: anandjeyahar 03 October 2013 02:32:15PM *  3 points [-]

Ok May be that misses context. Further down in the text he categories 5 types of deception:

  1. Outright lying and fabrication of evidence
  2. Misdirection
  3. Withholding of information
  4. Equivocation or sharing information in ambiguous ways
  5. Not-correcting others.

Hope that helps

Comment author: Lumifer 04 October 2013 06:37:24PM 8 points [-]

Not-correcting others.

Oh Dear Lord

Comment author: savageorange 09 October 2013 12:45:24AM 0 points [-]

Being wrong on the internet is vastly more impersonal than being wrong in person, as it were. The urge to correct is similar in both cases, but in the in-person case you can suffer clear consequences from others' wrong beliefs (eg. if they are family). There's some overlap with #3 -- consider the common case of the presumption that you are heterosexual and cisgender.

There are also people who say things they know are wrong in order to see what you're made of, if you're a pushover or not. Unlike the online equivalent (trolling), ignoring them is often not effective.

It seems pretty clear to me that not-correcting others can be a self-deceiving behaviour, at minimum.

Comment author: JQuinton 25 October 2013 06:12:49PM *  3 points [-]

Not-correcting others.

This reminds me of a previous rationality quote:

Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.