wedrifid comments on How I Ended Up Non-Ambitious - Less Wrong

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Comment author: pjeby 24 January 2012 04:49:44AM 18 points [-]

Ya know, it's people like you what cause people to spend their lives silent and paralyzed by indecision for fear of making a single social error that they will never be allowed to correct.

You did notice that you're doing the exact same thing sie is doing, right? (That is, jumping to a conclusion about what kind of person someone is, based on a single action.)

Comment author: wedrifid 24 January 2012 06:12:17AM 3 points [-]

You did notice that you're doing the exact same thing sie is doing, right?

Out of interest is "sie" one of those gender neutral terms that have been invented or a typo?

Comment author: pjeby 24 January 2012 09:34:56PM 1 point [-]

Gender neutral. "Mitchell Porter" sounds male, but for some reason my brain pings back that I've heard of a female with that exact first and last name, and the probability it could be that Mitchell Porter seems high.

Comment author: komponisto 26 January 2012 06:25:16PM 7 points [-]

Out of interest is "sie" one of those gender neutral terms that have been invented or a typo?

Gender neutral.

Bad choice; it's German for "she".

Comment author: Vladimir_Golovin 24 January 2012 06:57:20PM 0 points [-]

The 'i' key is not adjacent to 's', 'h' or 'e', so I guess it's intentional.

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