adamzerner comments on Mind Projection Fallacy - Less Wrong
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Yes, I agree that projecting "true color" onto the real world is a mistake. I'm not sure those commenters are actually doing that, though. I think your interpretation of the Buzzfeed argument is something like this:
Whereas my interpretation, I feel, is slightly more charitable:
In other words, I feel that the dicussion isn't quite as full of fallacious reasoning as you seem to be making it out to be (in that it could interpreted in a different way that makes it about something other than the mind projection fallacy). Of course, I could be wrong. What do you think?
I actually trust your interpretation over mine. I haven't read through it too carefully and sense that my frustration has interfered with my interpretation a bit.