Alicorn comments on Cheat codes - Less Wrong

36 Post author: sketerpot 01 December 2010 09:19PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (92)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: Alicorn 06 December 2010 12:52:35PM 2 points [-]

First, her argument is internally weak. What, the physical conditioning will be of little benefit? The hand strikes will simply not be useful? The reflexes cease to operate when she is in her mufti? The skirt reduces any footwork (not even talking about kicks here) to utter uselessness?

Well, I think it has something to do with the fact that she wouldn't wish to stop wearing skirts during practice either. I don't know if hakama "count" in her book.

Comment author: gwern 06 December 2010 06:03:57PM 3 points [-]

That's... very strange. Sounds almost autistic, actually, in the refusal to wear something other than skirts. (Doubly so if hakama don't 'count'.)

Comment author: Alicorn 06 December 2010 07:49:09PM 5 points [-]

I asked her about hakama. She had thought that they all had divided legs, but seems willing to accept an undivided hakama as a sufficiently skirtlike item.