Rain comments on Eight Short Studies On Excuses - Less Wrong

210 Post author: Yvain 20 April 2010 11:01PM

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Comment author: Rain 23 April 2010 12:31:57AM *  3 points [-]

I view this entire thread as a masturbatory word argument that was fully answered and explored in the first couple posts, and I let the pattern of votes upset me. Sorry.

My best guess would be that you said, "How am I dressed improperly?" I would also guess that if you had changed the question to something more specific like, "What, my shirt?" then you would have received a more specific answer instead of repeating yourself so many times.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 23 April 2010 01:28:01AM *  1 point [-]

It's quite possible that more specific questions would have led to a faster answer. My failure of imagination was that I couldn't believe he didn't have a clear set of rules in mind.