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Epiphany comments on Poll - Is endless September a threat to LW and what should be done? - Less Wrong Discussion

4 Post author: Epiphany 08 December 2012 11:42PM

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Comment author: Vaniver 09 December 2012 08:27:35PM *  5 points [-]

I think LessWrong as a whole would find you less frustrating if you assumed most comments from established users on domain-specific concepts or facts were more likely to be correct than your own thoughts and updated accordingly.

Established users can be wrong about many things, including domain-specific concepts or facts.

A more general heuristic that I do endorse, from Cromwell:

I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.