ChristianKl comments on Open Thread February 25 - March 3 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ChristianKl 01 March 2014 08:31:44PM 1 point [-]

Well, some people don't want to be given information, and some people do.

Whether a person want to be given information doesn't mean that he can handle the information. I can remember a few instance where I swear that I wanted information but wasn't well equipped to handle them.

The problem with saying "some information should not be known" is that it does not specify who shouldn't know (and why).

That sentence alone doesn't but the psychologist probably had a context in which he spoke it.

Comment author: jkadlubo 02 March 2014 08:54:02PM 0 points [-]

Gah. Now I think I shouldn't have included the background for my question.

FYI, what I wrote in response to some other comment:

it was more of a general statement. AFAIR we were talking about me thinking too much about why other people do what they do (hence - I have too much information about them) and too little about how that affects me. Anyway - my own wording made me wonder more about what I said than what was the topic.

But reading you is still interesting.

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