Konkvistador comments on LW Women- Minimizing the Inferential Distance - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 28 November 2012 03:30:38PM 4 points [-]

I'm trying to decide if you are serious with that statement. Are you?

Comment author: Oligopsony 28 November 2012 03:43:01PM *  5 points [-]

I'm serious about the propositional content and implied emotional attitude towards it, but not about my means of expressing it or choosing to do so in the first place. I thought it sincerely, and assumed you would assume that I thought it sincerely, and so I posted it because verbalizing socially inappropriate thoughts that everyone-knows-one-is-thinking-anyway is funny, and because we've had friendly enough interactions in the past (whilst acknowledging mutual indexical evil) that I didn't think you would infer that it constituted a "real" social attack.

Does that make sense? (It's also about the limit in terms of how many orders of intentionality I can work with, if you want to run circles around me in our next/this interaction.)

Comment author: [deleted] 28 November 2012 03:45:32PM 5 points [-]

I posted it because verbalizing socially inappropriate thoughts that everyone-knows-one-is-thinking-anyway is funny, and because we've had friendly enough interactions in the past (whilst acknowledging mutual indexical evil) that I didn't think you would infer that it constituted a "real" social attack.

Yes it did make me laugh. I just wasn't sure about the intent.