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Douglas_Knight comments on What false beliefs have you held and why were you wrong? - Less Wrong Discussion

28 Post author: Punoxysm 16 October 2014 05:58PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 17 October 2014 11:44:44AM 4 points [-]

If you think the average person who kills themselves with a gun is even in the ballpark of the reference class that the word “euthanasia” suggests, your intuition about the latter needs recalibrating.

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 18 October 2014 12:09:19AM -2 points [-]

Or maybe your intuition about the former needs recalibrating.