NancyLebovitz comments on Open thread, August 4 - 10, 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 05 August 2014 02:59:25PM 5 points [-]

"To the very best of my abilities" seems excessive to me, or at least I seem to do reasonably well with "according to the amount of work I'm willing to put in, and based on pretty good habits".

I'm not even sure what I could do to improve my posting much. I could be more careful to not post when I'm tired or angry, and that probably makes sense to institute as a habit. On the other hand, that's getting rid of some of the dubious posting, which is not the same thing as improving the average or the best posts.

Comment author: satt 07 August 2014 02:01:16AM 2 points [-]

Even when I'd only been here a few weeks, your posting had already caught my eye as unusually mindful & civil, and nothing since has changed my impression that you're far better than most of us at conversing in good faith and with equanimity.