dxu comments on Is arrogance a symptom of bad intellectual hygeine? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: dxu 26 March 2015 05:53:24PM *  0 points [-]

Quote: I think some behaviors which may be considered arrogant can be justified. For example, dismissing other people's opinions out of hand can be a good choice when actually surrounded by people with very low-quality opinions.

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(Question for someone more experienced with Markdown than me: the backslash escape character apparently doesn't work with the quote character. I had originally planned to use the backslash to escape the quote character, but it just showed up as "\>", so I was forced to use literal quotation marks instead, which I felt was quite inelegant, especially for a demonstration. Is this behavior intentional?)