If your chief goal, as a thinking person, is to find a path to making yourself right, you may never amount to much of a thinking person, but you can never be disappointed.
I think you would have done better quoting just the second sentence, which is indeed a sharp rationality quote and needs no context to be appreciated. To include the previous sentence is just inviting downvotes for politics-is-the-mindkiller reasons. (Both in the plain level that conservatives might confuse it for “rah liberals” quote, and in the meta level that some people dislike any mention of ordinary politics in LW regardless of sides.)
I originally had just the second sentence, but I thought that the “making yourself right” phrase was too ambiguous (it allowed for the interpretation “correcting yourself” as well as “justifying current beliefs despite evidence”). The first sentence provided context, but then excerpting the problematic political view felt too much like editing, especially considering the contentious allegation was already in the URL. My apologies.
Completely different topic, but is there a cheat-sheet for how to format comments for bold and italics? I would have liked to bring the focus (2nd sentence) of my quote to the forefront.
When you are writing a comment, there is a “Show help” button in the bottom right corner of the text box. It normally shows the codes for bold, italics, links, etc. Now it is not working for me for some reason.
Bold and italics are done enclosing the text to be formatted with one asterisk and with two asterisks on each side, but I never remember without looking which uses one and which two. Let’s see: One asterisk on each side, Two on each side.
If you hit Show Help on the lower right of the comment box, it will have some brief primers. To answer your specific question, writing one astrix at the beginning and end will make italics (no spaces). Two astix will make bold
- Ta-Nehisi Coates
(Edited to remove objectionable and politically biased commentary)
I think you would have done better quoting just the second sentence, which is indeed a sharp rationality quote and needs no context to be appreciated. To include the previous sentence is just inviting downvotes for politics-is-the-mindkiller reasons. (Both in the plain level that conservatives might confuse it for “rah liberals” quote, and in the meta level that some people dislike any mention of ordinary politics in LW regardless of sides.)
I originally had just the second sentence, but I thought that the “making yourself right” phrase was too ambiguous (it allowed for the interpretation “correcting yourself” as well as “justifying current beliefs despite evidence”). The first sentence provided context, but then excerpting the problematic political view felt too much like editing, especially considering the contentious allegation was already in the URL. My apologies.
Completely different topic, but is there a cheat-sheet for how to format comments for bold and italics? I would have liked to bring the focus (2nd sentence) of my quote to the forefront.
When you are writing a comment, there is a “Show help” button in the bottom right corner of the text box. It normally shows the codes for bold, italics, links, etc. Now it is not working for me for some reason.
Bold and italics are done enclosing the text to be formatted with one asterisk and with two asterisks on each side, but I never remember without looking which uses one and which two. Let’s see: One asterisk on each side, Two on each side.
If you hit Show Help on the lower right of the comment box, it will have some brief primers. To answer your specific question, writing one astrix at the beginning and end will make italics (no spaces). Two astix will make bold
Writing the greater than sign