SilasBarta comments on On Enjoying Disagreeable Company - Less Wrong
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Well, it is indeed incorrect. The agreement's not supposed to make sense -- I found out the hard way what Alicorn is demanding.
Well, that's subjective. If I have a good-faith suspicion of Alicorn not following this advice when in critical cases where it actually matters, surely, it obviously belongs here. Except that to jimrandomh, it obviously does. Which of these two contradictory obvious positions is right? And what inference should I draw from this kafkaesqueness?
<sigh>... I don't know how many more ways we can rephrase this till you get it: her advice is solely about how, not when or whether, to go about liking someone. So even if everything you're saying is absolutely true, it does not refute the claims in the article.
Our positions aren't contradictory. His is that you should refrain from commenting at all. Mine is that as long as you're making personal accusations irrelevant to the OP, you should refrain from commenting. Since, in this case, you're making personal accusations irrelevant to the OP, both our positions recommend the same course of action.