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Dorikka comments on Exercise isn't necessarily good for people - Less Wrong Discussion

9 Post author: NancyLebovitz 08 June 2013 02:32PM

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Comment author: Dorikka 08 June 2013 11:05:03PM 4 points [-]

You might want to add an indicator to the title that you're not sure whether this is true or not. I think that people might treat the number of upvotes (not huge, but definitely positive) as an indication of the veracity of the claim in the title when I don't think that they were intended as such.

Comment author: ThisSpaceAvailable 09 June 2013 05:21:29PM 0 points [-]

Isn't the double modal somewhat redundant, though? "I think it's possible that it's possible that exercise isn't good".

Comment author: Dorikka 09 June 2013 09:03:19PM 0 points [-]

"isn't necessarily good for people" could expand to "is known to not be good for a certain subset of people" or "is possibly not good for people (or a subset thereof)" The second reading seems intended, not the first.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 08 June 2013 11:36:51PM *  0 points [-]

A reasonable point. There are at least two sorts of leakage-- one is whether I've given sufficiently careful attention to the lecture, and the other is whether the material in the lecture is accurate.