polymathwannabe comments on Open Thread, January 11-17, 2016 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: polymathwannabe 24 January 2016 02:48:20PM 0 points [-]

If you made an incorrect statement and this gets pointed out, you will lose status for admitting it

LW culture is built specifically to encourage and reward correcting oneself.

Comment author: bogus 24 January 2016 05:15:10PM * 0 points [-]

Yup. Though the original post was specifically about mainstream culture. (Twitter culture?)