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Eugine_Nier comments on How to offend a rationalist (who hasn't thought about it yet): a life lesson - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 07 February 2013 03:37:58AM 2 points [-]

In practice this tends to manifest as being able to rationalize any result.

Comment author: Desrtopa 07 February 2013 03:43:59AM 0 points [-]

They'll tend to rationalize whatever results they output, but that doesn't mean that they'll output just any result.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 07 February 2013 04:14:47AM 1 point [-]

Unfortunately the results they output tend to resemble this.