JoeW comments on Polyhacking - Less Wrong

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Comment author: JoeW 01 September 2011 12:10:32AM 0 points [-]

I see I have written poorly. I understand you're against the meme and I have no problem with anything you've written about your conduct or attitudes. My apologies, it seems I have come across as combative when I was aiming for "musing collaboratively".

I think perhaps I had misread you as saying your motivation to combat the memes was reduced if that combat reinforced clueless entitlement. I thought that was an unfortunate result. Entitlement always annoys me, but I try to be explicitly suspicious of decisions I make out of annoyance, and I thought that was interesting in a more general case as well as for our subtopic. Perhaps I've been projecting; perhaps I shouldn't try writing on LW when jetlagged.

Comment author: [deleted] 01 September 2011 01:25:28AM 0 points [-]

I think perhaps I had misread you as saying your motivation to combat the memes was reduced if that combat reinforced clueless entitlement.

Ahhhh, okay. No, just that I don't feel it's necessary or helpful to signal my own participation to someone making such a demand, compared to signalling that they're being inappropriate.

Entitlement always annoys me, but I try to be explicitly suspicious of decisions I make out of annoyance,

Not a bad policy at all.