ahartell comments on Open thread, November 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ahartell 09 November 2011 02:45:31AM 3 points [-]

I think that signaling, "See, I read the sequences!" was not 0% of your motivation in phrasing that way.

That's probably fair. More than "See, I read the sequences!", it was probably something like "Look, I fit in with you guys because we know the same obscure terms! And since I consider LW posters who seem smart high status this makes me high status by association!". I didn't verbally think that, of course, but still.