MrMind comments on A Weird Trick To Manage Your Identity - Less Wrong

2 Post author: Gleb_Tsipursky 19 September 2016 07:13PM

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Comment author: MrMind 26 September 2016 09:21:37AM *  -1 points [-]

It's amazing how the "noncentral fallacy" is rooted deeply into human psychology.
Using "weird" to escape the gravitational pull of a word it's interesting, and suggests a general strategy: Martin Luther King was an heroic criminal, abortion is an ethic murder, etc.
Mmh, better but not the best.

'Weird' seems to work well only for self-identification, though.

Comment author: Gleb_Tsipursky 26 September 2016 07:11:36PM -1 points [-]

I like those other examples for labeling others, though - might be a nice general strategy to employ.