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

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Comment author: Relsqui 08 December 2010 06:20:23AM *  0 points [-]

Yeah, but the scale we're using isn't very precise. The variables you mention will move the threshold around, certainly, but not so much that shokwave can't at least give me a smallish range. We can limit it to modern, Western, and no significant status differences from each other.

Polite means a very different thing here (Australia) than it does in the US for example.

Yeah, I can tell. ;)

Comment author: wedrifid 08 December 2010 07:19:59AM *  1 point [-]

Yeah, I can tell. ;)

This kind of statement is one of the reasons I consider 'politeness' to be an almost irrelevant metric to consider when evaluating people's statements. The relationship between politeness and social 'defection' is utterly negligible.