Eugine_Nier comments on How to deal with someone in a LessWrong meeting being creepy - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 08 September 2012 07:47:36PM 7 points [-]

Heck, I suspect that in a lot of cases what a feminist claims is creepy on the internet, and what the same feminist would find creepy in real life are different things.

Comment author: Emile 08 September 2012 09:44:13PM 9 points [-]

That extends to more than feminists, and more than creepiness; people's verbal descriptions of grammatical or moral rules often don't match the judgement they will give to specific cases. More generally, people can't see how their brain works, and when they try to describe it they will get a lot wrong.