rwallace comments on Defecting by Accident - A Flaw Common to Analytical People - Less Wrong

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Comment author: rwallace 02 December 2010 05:00:56AM -2 points [-]

I never claimed to know person X's gender, and in fact I don't, so I can't inform you of it.

As a matter of fact, you did.

Comment author: AstroCJ 02 December 2010 10:20:04AM 2 points [-]

(On the theme of the post, I think that bluntness is most polite here - this conversation doesn't look like it's about to progress further without prodding.)

  • TheOtherDave did claim to know person X's gender? Unlikely, given the point of the example.

  • TheOtherDave did inform you of person X's gender? Then, to repeat the question: What is that gender?