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army1987 comments on What epistemic hygiene norms should there be? - Less Wrong Discussion

11 Post author: Kaj_Sotala 21 March 2012 07:26PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 21 April 2012 09:23:01AM *  0 points [-]

I usually use “Sorry for the stupid question, but X is [answer I think most likely], isn't it?”. I will learn the same thing as if I asked “What is X?”, but I won't sound like an idiot.