Will_Sawin comments on We are not living in a simulation - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Will_Sawin 13 April 2011 02:42:55AM 0 points [-]

I cannot determine the difference between my heavily downvoted comment and this one:

Mine is more abridged and might be unclear, but that doesn't seem worth 13 karma points. I am confused.

Comment author: [deleted] 13 April 2011 03:17:10AM 4 points [-]

I did not downvote you, but the following looked to me superficially like an insult:

Maybe the qualia of people who ACTUALLY have brains are completely different from yours, a person who has no brain.

People react badly to personal insults. I am not sure that you really intended an insult, which is one reason I didn't downvote.

Comment author: orthonormal 13 April 2011 03:38:35AM 0 points [-]

If you replaced "brains" with "bodies" in your comment, it would make the same point and not look like an insult.

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