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jimmy comments on How to signal curiosity? - Less Wrong Discussion

21 Post author: Wei_Dai 11 January 2013 10:47PM

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Comment author: jimmy 12 January 2013 06:45:52AM 5 points [-]

You can generalize this to thinking about what other reasons people might have to ask the question that aren't nice and then signal that it's not those.

In this case you can come off as curious instead of smugly superior if you forfeit the superior position of having all the answers