RichardKennaway comments on Procedural Knowledge Gaps - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 15 September 2011 06:29:59PM 3 points [-]

Not really, because if you're pretending to be satirical in order to say exactly what you think, the plausible deniability goes out the window if you own up to it. See also Ha Ha Only Serious.

And this is just too perfect:

Like a maniac shooting flaming arrows of death
is one who deceives a neighbor and says, “I was only joking!" (Proverbs 26:18-19)

Via TVTropes. I had to look it up independently before I believed they hadn't just made it up.