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Pimgd comments on Hedging - Less Wrong Discussion

-8 Post author: Elo 26 August 2016 08:34AM

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Comment author: Pimgd 05 September 2016 09:26:01AM 0 points [-]

I don't know how I would integrate this with my programming work, where it is VERY important my inner voice differentiates between "I know" and "I think" and "It seems like" - were I to use more factual statements, I'd go wrong faster and end up taking longer to debug things...

Comment author: Elo 05 September 2016 12:49:52PM -2 points [-]

Hedging your internal voice is not a good idea. Likely to lead to confusion. When you hedge (or don't), you already know what you mean. Other people don't. It's a communication barrier, not one I would tackle inside your head.