byrnema comments on The Sin of Underconfidence - Less Wrong

55 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 April 2009 06:30AM

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Comment author: byrnema 25 April 2009 02:00:02PM *  -2 points [-]

This comment is condescending and specious.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 25 April 2009 02:18:34PM *  0 points [-]

That comment was meta. It isn't condescending, as it's not about you.

Comment author: byrnema 25 April 2009 02:41:18PM 0 points [-]

It's about me because you imply that I don't already know what you're saying, and I could benefit from this wise advice.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 25 April 2009 02:48:16PM *  0 points [-]

If someone speaks the obvious, then it's just noise, no new information, and so the speaker should be castigated for destructive stupidity. Someone or I.