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Pavitra comments on Proposal: Rationality Quotes Thread With Attributions in rot13 - Less Wrong Discussion

22 Post author: lessdazed 02 September 2011 01:38PM

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Comment author: Pavitra 02 September 2011 07:42:53PM 2 points [-]

I think a much more important voting bias is whether the voter agrees with the conclusion that the quote argues for.

Comment author: lessdazed 02 September 2011 07:57:44PM *  0 points [-]

I agree that seeing the communal effect matters, and that is partly based on things like what you mentioned. Another thing that matters is one's first perception upon reading a quote, that's more amenable to being fixed.