wedrifid comments on Polyhacking - Less Wrong

75 Post author: Alicorn 28 August 2011 08:35AM

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Comment author: wedrifid 31 August 2011 07:51:42AM *  1 point [-]

This discussion started with:

It moved on from there a long time ago and started being about the things literally represented by the characters contained in the comments instead of what side they affiliate with.

Edit: This gave Hairy an excuse to get confused. I should have, instead, written "The parent is almost entirely irrelevant to the point the grandparent is making".

Comment author: hairyfigment 31 August 2011 08:31:23AM -1 points [-]

Ah. So you're being needlessly pedantic.

Even on this level your objection fails, because K said s/he thought the two strategies "differ from each other on this" while Julian claimed to provide 'antidotes to this kind of "sexual strategies" thinking' (emphasis added). You can't leave out some of the symbols and claim this makes for a more literal interpretation.

Comment author: wedrifid 31 August 2011 08:44:45AM 0 points [-]

Ah. So you're being needlessly pedantic.

No. Just no.

Comment author: hairyfigment 31 August 2011 05:38:41PM 0 points [-]

Here's the sub-thread I refer to. You come into it strawmanning JulianMorrison and accusing him of political bias. Now you seem to say that you 'moved the discussion' in this way because you (falsely) believed he made a technically incorrect statement in the comment that I just quoted correctly.

Had he in fact done so, and had I wanted to correct it for some reason, I would have started my response with "Technically..." rather than going straight to sarcasm.

Comment author: Mass_Driver 31 August 2011 06:46:56PM 0 points [-]

Odds are neither wedrifid nor hairyfigment is learning anything from this discussion any more. But if you want to continue, consider tabooing "sexual strategies." It's possible you're just using that phrase to mean different things.