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I'm curious -- where did your other post (a few paragraphs) go? I didn't think that people could permanently delete posts, only retract them, and I thought that a star appeared if you edited your post.
You get the option to delete if you retract and no one's commented. Which is perhaps not good, because I made a rather embarrassing terminological error in that comment that I probably deserve to be punished for.
You are aware that you can edit your posts? Such as fixing terminological errors.
Upon a few minutes of reflection, I've decided that it wouldn't technically be logically impossible for me to not be aware that I can edit my posts. At first I thought that any person who can contribute to LessWrong for two years without realizing that they can edit their posts simply couldn't be me in any possible world. But it's true that weirdly specific brain damage or supernatural influence could in fact make it happen while leaving my identity intact. I have a stricter sense of logical possibility than most, but I guess I'll cordon off that debate for some other time.
Um anyway yeah I'm aware.
Then why didn't you fix the error rather than delete the post?
It was a bad post overall. Also the terminological error was rather embarrassing so I wanted to erase it as quickly as possible.
Gotcha -- thanks.
But for some reason I can still see where the comment used to be, now with a "comment deleted" indicator, and it says it has one child, but it doesn't. Perhaps a synchronization error.
I had replied to point out the terminological error. You must have deleted after I started the comment but before I submitted. I then notice your comment was deleted, so I deleted my response. (It might be a good idea to not allow a response to be submitted after the parent is deleted.)