Tyrrell_McAllister comments on A Suite of Pragmatic Considerations in Favor of Niceness - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Tyrrell_McAllister 06 January 2010 09:04:35PM 1 point [-]

Were you laughing with your first thought or at your first thought?

Comment author: Furcas 06 January 2010 09:18:02PM 0 points [-]

With it, obviously.

Comment author: Kingreaper 12 October 2010 12:41:55PM *  1 point [-]

So it was, in fact, unironic, sardonic humor. And not ironic self-referential humour. For it to be irony you need to mean something other than what you're saying. Had you been laughing both with AND at it it would have been ironic sardonic humour.

But I'm sure you knew that. You're very smart after all. Your mean behaviour proves that you are highly intelligent, by asserting your higher intellectual status than others.

/\ Can you guess what kind of humour that* is?

*and this