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Fluttershy comments on Gratitude Thread :-) - Less Wrong Discussion

1 Post author: Gleb_Tsipursky 19 April 2016 03:11AM

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Comment author: Fluttershy 19 April 2016 11:28:46PM 6 points [-]

Perhaps the way in which you helped this person would have been valued more strongly in one of the monthly bragging threads? Getting the upvotes you deserve after helping a friend make a tough choice would have merely been an issue of wording, if you had posted there.

Also, many of us who read Hanson will have developed the intuition that gratitude is about giving others status, while bragging is about giving yourself status.

Comment author: Gleb_Tsipursky 19 April 2016 11:30:05PM 0 points [-]

Maybe you're right... Oh well, lesson learned. Thanks for the feedback!