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Benquo comments on Those who can't admit they're wrong - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Benquo 01 July 2011 08:14:21PM 2 points [-]

1a: No, because the quality of "interruption" is quite different in a book or wikipedia. It's not interrupting my thoughts to make a correction, it's just doing its own thing, which happens to be a correction of my error. For similar reasons it's easier to deal with corrections in online comments than in speech because it doesn't make me stop what I'm doing to listen to it.

1b: No, unless I had a good reason to think the correction was incorrect, in which case I would be annoyed at the condescending tone.

2: Only a very little bit, out of sympathy.

3a, b: A little bit, but I would get over it quickly if I recognized the correction as valid.

Depending on how on my game I am it can take me from 5 seconds to a minute to bring my affect in line with my beliefs.