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SquirrelInHell comments on My new rationality/futurism podcast - Less Wrong Discussion

15 Post author: James_Miller 06 April 2016 05:36PM

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Comment author: SquirrelInHell 09 April 2016 02:13:34AM 1 point [-]

I tried the episode about sunk cost fallacy, praised by Fluttershy, but I triggered so much on your overuse of the word "should" that I couldn't continue.

I am very aversive to this, since I realised that "should" is not a reason to do anything (and taking this further, doing things because of "reasons" runs cross to consequentialism).

Take a look at what Nate says about this, which is not exactly my point but close enough: http://mindingourway.com/should-considered-harmful/

Comment author: James_Miller 09 April 2016 04:08:27AM 1 point [-]

Thanks for the feedback. It had never occurred to me that I over use this word, and I will try to be mindful of it in the future.