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Giles comments on You'll die if you do that - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Giles 13 May 2011 01:06:01PM 6 points [-]

I don't know if it's on-topic, but "trust your parents" seems to be a pretty good heuristic, evolutionarily speaking. Your parents were successful enough to produce at least one child, and the advice they give will be tuned to your genetics and environment more than average.

An obvious side-effect of this is that you will believe a lot of stupid stuff that your parents tell you.

(Even more off-topic: do people with more siblings trust their parents more?)