Alicorn comments on Call For Agreement: Should LessWrong have better protection against cultural collapse? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Alicorn 03 September 2012 08:18:00AM *  8 points [-]

My intent wasn't mockery.

I had no way to distinguish between the learning disorder hypothesis and the "has not assimilated LW culture/vocabulary" hypothesis, and the latter seemed a lot more salient and likely. You're new, you're making other cultural errors that just don't happen to be so readily quoted, and I don't remember you mentioning this anywhere before.

Comment author: Epiphany 03 September 2012 08:40:06AM 6 points [-]

Ah. It's hard to tell a person's intent in text, and I used to experience discrimination all the time in the past before I did so much work on my spelling. I expect myself to be able to remember which versions of new words are correct, because I know that I'm capable of it. Perfectionist moment.

Thanks for taking the moment to explain that to me.