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FrameBenignly comments on Guidelines for Upvoting and Downvoting? - Less Wrong Discussion

16 Post author: Sable 06 May 2015 11:51AM

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Comment author: FrameBenignly 08 May 2015 12:32:16AM 1 point [-]

To be fair, I think a more correct response would be that TheMajor's statement is correct, but implies a criterion which would likely lead to confirmation bias. Applied correctly, a better understanding of one's wants would support TheMajor's conclusion because one would not want to just have one's views confirmed.

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 11 May 2015 09:59:59AM 1 point [-]

In other words, it works just fine, so long as you are in an ideal world,