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Comment author: [deleted] 31 August 2015 08:41:20AM *  0 points [-]

Or sometimes they flip that modus tollens into a modus ponens, and you become a cult leader. So it's polarizing.

Care to explain what they flip exactly?

Comment author: D_Malik 02 September 2015 07:31:02AM *  1 point [-]

Whether they believe your confidence vs whether they believe their own evidence about your value. If a person is confident, either he's low-value and lying about it, or he's high-value and honest. The modus ponens/tollens description is unclear, I think I only used it because it's a LW shibboleth. (Come to think of it, "shibboleth" is another LW shibboleth.)