pjeby comments on Rationality Quotes November 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: pjeby 06 November 2013 12:46:38AM 23 points [-]

Realistically, most people have poor filters for sorting truth from fiction, and there’s no objective way to know if you’re particularly good at it or not. Consider the people who routinely disagree with you. See how confident they look while being dead wrong? That’s exactly how you look to them.

Scott Adams, in How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big