NancyLebovitz comments on Help Fund Lukeprog at SIAI - Less Wrong

40 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 24 August 2011 07:16AM

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 30 August 2011 11:38:07AM 8 points [-]

I don't think what you're doing is trolling, but I have a fairly tight definition for trolling-- I think of it as posting driven by abstract malice, a desire to cause pain which is divorced from the topic at hand. That clearly isn't you.

On the other hand, I think you're engaged in a bad emotional habit-- attributing a negative motivation to someone else on very little evidence, and getting stuck on the idea of that motivation.