Less wrong can really only be understood in context, and the context is recovering children of ferverent evangelicals. If you grew up in a reasonable household,

Less wrong can really only be understood in context, and the context is recovering children of ferverent evangelicals. If you grew up in a reasonable household, The thought “maybe I, a mildly gifted 12 year old, am right and every trusted adult I’ve ever seen and all of the books they have and all of the people they talk to are wrong” is going to be disproven every time. If you grow up in the sort of household that produces less wrongers, you need to take that sort of thought seriously or you will end up believing the Earth is 2000 years old and hurricanes are caused by gay people.