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fubarobfusco comments on Using vs. evaluating (or, Why I don't come around here no more) - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: fubarobfusco 20 January 2014 07:45:01AM 4 points [-]
Comment author: passive_fist 21 January 2014 02:17:08AM *  2 points [-]

That's a very good link, but I'm talking about the slightly different problem of arrogance - believing that you are right and other people are stupid, rather than simply trying to argue against them with rationalist ammunition. Although to some extent I think these two concepts overlap.