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MrMind comments on Open thread, Feb. 9 - Feb. 15, 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: MrMind 12 February 2015 08:22:48AM 0 points [-]

How about trying to make some of them less stupid? Educating people through blog articles, lectures or simply informed discussions helped me with the same problem.

Comment author: adamzerner 12 February 2015 03:04:24PM *  1 point [-]

In my experience, the overwhelming majority of the time people don't respond well. Example - people commit the Fallacy of Gray all the time. I haven't had much success when pointing this out and trying to explain it. But I do agree that it's something to strive towards.