handoflixue comments on The Crackpot Offer - Less Wrong

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Comment author: handoflixue 11 June 2011 11:29:18AM 3 points [-]

what a terribly unfair test to visit upon a child of thirteen. That I had to be that rational, already, at that age, or fail.

I always find it odd that you seem to write as though there is no hope of redemption when one makes a mistake of this magnitude. Certainly, lifetimes can be lost to such mistakes. But then, sometimes, it only takes a week to realise our folly, neh?