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John_Maxwell_IV comments on List a few posts in Main and/or Discussion which actually made you change your mind - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 13 June 2014 04:02:44PM 2 points [-]

I started looking through http://lesswrong.com/user/John_Maxwell_IV/liked/ and came across this post. However, although this post had information that caused me to update and changed the way I explain things, "changed your mind" has a bit of a connotation of having believed one explanation really strongly previously and then abandoning it. If you tell me 8679 * 579825 is 5032301175, that's new information to me and I will have learned something, but I haven't necessarily "changed my mind" in the colloquial use of the phrase. Thoughts?

Comment author: shminux 13 June 2014 10:29:36PM 0 points [-]

I was looking more for a case where you held something as true, but a post made you doubt it and eventually see that you were sorely mistaken.

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