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Desrtopa comments on How can people be actually converted? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: buybuydandavis 07 February 2012 06:27:18AM 0 points [-]

It's not just that you win by becoming less wrong.

My point was that at least with some people, you gain in status when you admit you were wrong.

Comment author: Desrtopa 07 February 2012 08:25:12PM 1 point [-]

This is true, and it can be an important thing to learn, but unfortunately most of us operate on heuristics, learned or innate, that urge us not to do this.