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Moss_Piglet comments on Less Wrong’s political bias - Less Wrong Discussion

-6 Post author: Sophronius 25 October 2013 04:38PM

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Comment author: Moss_Piglet 27 October 2013 06:10:11PM 4 points [-]

I think my following sentence handled that nicely; etiquette is a concern, but a secondary one.

If your goal is good epistemology, avoiding offense should always lose to making accurate statements when the two conflict. That is almost tautologically true, yet still useful to keep in mind since the two often are at odds with one another.