VKS comments on Rationality Quotes September 2012 - Less Wrong
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But that's the entire point of the quote! That mathematicians cannot afford the use of irony!
Yes. My goal wasn't to argue with the quote but to improve its argument. The quote said:
And I said, it's not just superficially similar, it's exactly the same and there's no relevant difference between the two that would guide us to use irony in one case and not in the other (or as readers, to perceive irony in one case and serious proof by contradiction in the other).