Lumifer comments on The Valentine’s Day Gift That Saves Lives - Less Wrong

-6 Post author: Gleb_Tsipursky 01 February 2016 05:00PM

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Comment author: Lumifer 18 May 2016 02:32:23PM 3 points [-]

Don't be daft.

Comment author: Pimgd 18 May 2016 02:41:32PM -2 points [-]

It doesn't look like a silly question; steelmanned to some degree it would be "do you have any evidence of this, because if that was true, I'd want to end that practice in my organization". I prefer systems where burden of proof is on the accuser, and whilst you don't need payslips that have as job title "content upvoter", some explanation would be nice.

It's perfectly possible to speak the truth whilst being intellectually dishonest, you two could be arguing past each other - "You're engaging in shady business practices!" "There's no fraud here."

Comment author: Lumifer 18 May 2016 03:01:20PM *  3 points [-]

steelmanned to some degree it would be "do you have any evidence of this, because if that was true, I'd want to end that practice in my organization".

Nope, because InIn is basically Gleb and his wife, that's it, and he, of course, knows perfectly well how "that practice" works.

In any case, we've already circled around this mulberry bush. See e.g. starting from here and reading the replies, or follow the links upthread.

It's perfectly possible to speak the truth whilst being intellectually dishonest, you two could be arguing past each other

It is certainly possible to be dishonest while speaking the literal truth. However that's not called "arguing past each other", that's called deceit.

Comment author: Pimgd 19 May 2016 08:29:34AM 0 points [-]

That is one well-plucked mulberry bush.