lol, it was sooo tempting to edit that comment and replace the word "penises" with "ice cream". I guess that would be the reverse of one of the standard internet pranks.
But I didn't do that, because the negative value from the confusion caused to anyone else reading this thread would probably have outweighed any positive value from the prank being funny.
though, um... please upvote this comment if you want me to go ahead and swap the words "penises" and "ice cream", in both the previous comment and this comment...
or please downvote this comment if you think that's a bad idea.
I didn't upvote or downvote any of these. But I think the result would be the same if you had said "ice cream": the point is that it's a completely random comment that has nothing to do with the rationality discussion and distracts from the flow. I don't think that there's anything wrong with randomness or silliness but interrupting a rationality conversation with completely unrelated comments could get annoying.
It has been claimed on this site that the fundamental question of rationality is "What do you believe, and why do you believe it?".
A good question it is, but I claim there is another of equal importance. I ask you, Less Wrong...
What are you doing?
And why are you doing it?