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army1987 comments on EY "Politics is the Mind Killer" sighting at Washington Examiner and Reason.com - Less Wrong Discussion

19 Post author: buybuydandavis 27 September 2012 07:48PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 30 September 2012 12:13:23AM 0 points [-]

Yeah, “we” meaning ‘Americans’ is the first example I would have thought of. But I suspect there are lots of cases where “we” (interpreting the context literally) refers to a group excluding a non-trivial fraction of the readership which I wouldn't even consciously notice unless I was looking for them.