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Creutzer comments on Use Your Identity Carefully - Less Wrong Discussion

76 Post author: Ben_LandauTaylor 22 August 2013 01:14AM

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Comment author: Creutzer 23 August 2013 04:09:20AM 3 points [-]

It seems to me that the intention behind the phrase "keep your identity small" was clearly "keep that part of your identity which you intend to be immutable small". Some people - including myself - presumably use the word "identity" to mean just these parts.