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Comment author: SilasBarta 14 May 2010 05:21:10PM -2 points [-]

the "buy me a drink" problem: you approach an attractive NT person who you might like as a future partner. After a short time, they ask you to buy them a drink. The logical answer to this question is "what kind of drink would you like?", because in most social situations where you want to build up a positive relationship with a person, it is best to comply with their requests; not creating explicit conflict is usually a safe heuristic. But this is the wrong answer in this context, and you can store in your cache of counter-intuitive answers.

Warning: Some posters may regard this advice as an act of terrorism (in moral equivalence if not by that label).

Comment author: gwillen 15 May 2010 06:33:00AM 3 points [-]

'Terrorism' is strong, but it is a pet peeve of mine when people present knowledge they know is contentious as though it were obvious, so this did annoy me considerably and lower my opinion of the poster. (I am more or less neutral on the question of whether it is good advice or not; I do not go to bars, so it does not affect me.)

Comment author: Tyrrell_McAllister 18 May 2010 04:30:40AM 2 points [-]

it is a pet peeve of mine when people present knowledge they know is contentious as though it were obvious

Roko merely claimed the knowledge. He/she didn't claim that the knowledge was obvious.