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MBlume comments on More "Personal" Introductions - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: MBlume 04 December 2011 03:30:44AM 2 points [-]

Based on my experience in the in-person community in Berkeley, this seems not like a thing to worry about.

If we really can't have a discussion about rationality without keeping one another at arms length, I think we're failing from the start.

Comment author: knb 04 December 2011 03:47:09AM *  8 points [-]

Of course you don't think it's affecting your judgments. Most people accept the religious or political tradition their parents follow, but they feel like they're just making the objectively correct choice. It's an obvious extension of the halo effect. Ideas that come from your e-friends will seem better than ideas that don't.