Nanani comments on Of Gender and Rationality - Less Wrong

41 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 16 April 2009 12:56AM

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Comment author: Nanani 17 April 2009 03:12:46AM 4 points [-]

I may just be a strange person, but lack of face-to-face contact is a Feature for me, not a Bug. Simply put, I find it easier to connect to a person's ideas and judge them on merit when my senses aren't throwing in distracting tidbits that often make me want to run away (such as "he is looking at me funny" or "he smells bad").

This is also the reason I prefer text to video blogs, emails to in-person meetings, and so on.

Comment author: mattnewport 17 April 2009 06:21:06AM 2 points [-]

Those examples suggest you're hanging out with entirely the wrong sort of people.

Comment author: Nanani 20 April 2009 12:35:54AM 6 points [-]

No no, I very explicitly do not hang out with the sort of people that elicit that sort of response. The problem is that the person eliciting it might not in fact be deserving of it, but I can't get far enough to find out.