JoshuaZ comments on The Super Happy People (3/8) - Less Wrong

40 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 01 February 2009 08:18AM

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Comment author: JoshuaZ 27 January 2011 05:23:30PM 2 points [-]

It sounds like you are equating a preference for civility with the inability to distinguish civility and rationality. Have I misunderstood you?

That's a very good point. I don't have any good evidence that the inability exists and the preference explanation does do a very good job explaining the data.