Eugine_Nier comments on Rationality Quotes January 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 08 January 2014 01:37:18AM 0 points [-]

The point is that if someone says:

"your critics will attack you for this"

rather than "what you are about to do this wrong", i.e., is unwilling to make the complaint in his own name, that's evidence you should disregard the complaint.

Comment author: Prismattic 08 January 2014 03:05:11AM 2 points [-]

Eh, alternatively it's evidence you should ditch the adviser. A yes man might be willing to make the oblique criticism because they're unwilling to make the accurate-but-offensive-to-higher-status-boss criticism.