1/ I have an extremely angry reaction when someone tells me that I'm factually wrong when I'm factually right. Like, not healthy hey-a-psychologist-could-prob-have-some-fun-with-this extreme. Dealing with a proofreader right now who has MULTIPLE times told me
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2/ "this word does not mean what you think it does." MOTHER - !@#-ER. You looking up the word at http://dictionary.com and finding that the one definition there does not comport with my usage does NOT trump the fact that I'm using it in the sense documented in the OED
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3/ as usage A - 9 - ii Some people stake their ego on their looks, or their social status, or their wealth, and having those called into question strikes at the core of their sense of self.
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4/ I think that I stake my ego on my fairness in considering arguments and researching things. Now, I absolutely make mistakes. All the time. And if you wanna correct me and say "no, Ben Franklin was NOT the 2nd US president" and provide a link, ok, cool.
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5/ I will update my priors and apologize. ...but if you tell me that I'm wrong when I'm right, it means (a) you did less work that I did (b) you confused "word X means Y" with "word X does NOT mean Z" (c) you looked for confirmation that your definition was correct >>>
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6/ ...when what you SHOULD have been looking for was confirmation that MY definition was correct / for evidence that your definition was wrong. This is an example of that human cognitive failure where people come up w theories and try to find evidence to prove them RIGHT
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7/ ...when the correct thing to do is to search out evidence that could theoretically prove your theory wrong (and the more pieces of data you find that fail to disprove your theory, the better your confidence in it can be).
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8/ but, back to how I'm an !@#-hole about all of this: if you challenge me and I'm wrong, I will blush a bit, but update priors, and take it as good intellectual debate ...but if you challenge me and I'm right, I got offended, as if my morality has been question which is dumb
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9/ I should not be that way. And yet,,pic.twitter.com/bg5RwbWo6o
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Replying to @MorlockP
Not really my place to say, as I'm not religious, but isn't pride a "deadly sin"? I completely relate. I don't get angry, I just feel extreme frustration about it sometimes. The only thing stopping me from ranting is that I can't really decide that it furthers any of my goals.
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well, you're responding to a tweet where I say "I should not be this way" so
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Replying to @MorlockP
Yep, I know. I figure you've contemplated it a lot. Probably from multiple angles. While I don't agree with any given religion, that isn't to say I don't see a lot of tribal wisdom in them. It's codified because it helped us all learn to get along better - earned the hard way.
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Replying to @The_Petrichory @MorlockP
And perhaps that's where many of us in this circle see eye-to-eye the best. Things earned the hard way are not to be trifled with. Just a restatement of the concept of Chesterton's fences, but still.
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