Cyan comments on It's all in your head-land - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Cyan 26 July 2009 03:08:49PM *  7 points [-]

There's no contradiction between what pjeby wrote in his original comment and what he wrote subsequently about Marken. In this exchange, you seem to me to be suffering from a negative halo effect -- your (possibly fair) assessment of pjeby's interests and goals in writing on this site have made you uncharitable about this particular anecdote.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 26 July 2009 04:31:44PM *  4 points [-]

You are right, I didn't reread the first Eby's comment in full before replying on the second, losing the context, and now that I did, even my first comment seems worded incorrectly.

Comment author: conchis 26 July 2009 03:17:17PM *  1 point [-]

But the subsequent comment was supposed to provide support for the original comment. (It was proffered in response to a request for such support). It therefore seems reasonable to criticise it if it fails to do so, doesn't it?

ETA: Apologies. This comment was stupid. I should learn to read. Withdrawn.

ETA2: Please don't upvote this! I shouldn't be able to gain karma by saying stupid things and then admitting that they were stupid. If we want to incentivise renouncing stupid comments, we should presumably downvote the originals and upvote the renunciations so that the net effect is zero. (Or, if you think the original was correct, I guess you could upvote it and downvote the renunciation.)

Comment author: Cyan 26 July 2009 03:36:25PM *  3 points [-]

But the subsequent comment was supposed to provide support for the original comment.

It did. See the first excerpt pjeby quoted in reply to orthonormal's query.

Comment author: conchis 26 July 2009 03:46:28PM *  1 point [-]

Sorry. You're right. I'm an idiot.