loqi comments on The 5-Second Level - Less Wrong

111 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 07 May 2011 04:51AM

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Comment author: loqi 10 May 2011 06:34:42PM 0 points [-]

Downvoted for spending more words explaining your non-response than it would have taken to just give Nesov the benefit of the doubt and be explicit.

Everyone is capable of misunderstanding trivial things, so the notion "should not need to explain" looks suspicious to me (specifically, it looks like posturing rather than honest communication). Can you explain it, or does it self-apply?

Comment author: wedrifid 10 May 2011 08:20:40PM *  -1 points [-]

Downvoted for spending more words explaining your non-response than it would have taken to just give Nesov the benefit of the doubt and be explicit.

More to the point - far more words than saying absolutely nothing. Almost always the best way to keep free of other people's games.