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elmtonic@lemmy.world to SneerClub@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 years ago

LessWrong: "Assume Bad Faith"

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LessWrong: "Assume Bad Faith"

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elmtonic@lemmy.world to SneerClub@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 years ago
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Assume Bad Faith — LessWrong
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I've been trying to avoid the terms "good faith" and "bad faith". I'm suspicious that most people who have picked up the phrase "bad faith" from hear…
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    see also helpful link to Zack’s previous banger, Why Me Being An Asshole Is Virtuous Actually

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      @dgerard @elmtonic Somebody didn’t read Scotts ‘stop acting and talking like robots you weirdos, you are starting to creep even me out’ (im slightly paraphrasing here) post.

      “To a decision-theoretic agent, the value of information is always nonnegative.” beep boop.

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      also, the fuck is “full-contact psychoanalysis”

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        I’m picturing an MMA match where the fighters ask about each other’s mothers.

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          @swlabr @dgerard Fight declared a draw after one fighter shouted ‘your mom is also called Martha?’

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            Too soon!

            :-P

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        It’s like percussive maintenance, only for the mind

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