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Lumifer comments on Meme: Valuable Vulnerability - Less Wrong Discussion

3 Post author: scarcegreengrass 27 June 2016 11:54PM

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Comment author: MrMind 01 July 2016 06:51:46AM 1 point [-]

What do you think is the main rationale for this idea, and do you think it is a good policy?

I think emotional vulnerability as it's commonly intended means being emotionally open, not emotionally fragile. Open to mean that you're not ashamed of what you feel, whatever that might be, and others have a honest reading about what you feel.