TobyBartels comments on Procedural Knowledge Gaps - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TobyBartels 10 February 2011 10:19:35AM 0 points [-]

For sarcasm that one would reasonably expect almost anyone to notice, I still think it's group-membership related, but the group is something very broad, like 'society'.

It can be a way of saying "We're in the same boat together.", floating in a sea that may or may not be populated by an out-group.