chaosmosis comments on How can we get more and better LW contrarians? - Less Wrong

58 Post author: Wei_Dai 18 April 2012 10:01PM

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Comment author: chaosmosis 19 April 2012 12:57:57AM 0 points [-]

I realized while writing the post that I didn't know his gender and proceeded to edit as fast as I could but you people still caught the mistake before I fixed it, I'm embarrassed. At least it's better to use "she" than "he" as my default assumption (balances against gendered language in favor of men, etc). Although on second thought it probably indicates that I associate civility with females which is stupid and unfair and can't be intentionally controlled by me anyways so it's not really worth lamenting.

But, sorry, Wei Dai, although it was just an accident and I doubt you'll care much.

Comment author: wedrifid 19 April 2012 01:05:27AM 0 points [-]

Although on second thought it probably indicates that I associate civility with females which is stupid and unfair and can't be intentionally controlled by me anyways so it's not really worth lamenting.

It makes a difference that there are some Wei Dais that are female.

I probably wouldn't default to associating anti-consensus advocacy with female. That goes against a notorious (and as far as I know reasonably well founded) stereotype.

Comment author: chaosmosis 19 April 2012 02:45:36AM 0 points [-]

I was thinking and perceiving in terms of tone rather than in terms of advocacy statement.

Someone else mentioned somewhere that essentially Wei Dai is very good at disagreeing politely.