Jiro comments on Stupid Questions May 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Jiro 04 May 2015 02:38:16AM *  3 points [-]

Unfortunately for this line of argument, there are a whole lot of things one can say that may cause personal affronts, some of which are essential as part of some debates and some of which may even express factual truths. If they are generalities, they might not even be disprovable by examples of individual humans (such as statements that some class of humans is more likely to have lower scores on IQ tests).