ialdabaoth comments on You can't signal to rubes - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ialdabaoth 05 January 2013 07:51:21AM -1 points [-]

My objections aren't constructionist; like I said, I have an inner Death-Eater that keeps screaming "Weaklings should suffer!".

Comment author: [deleted] 05 January 2013 07:58:29AM -2 points [-]

Oh no, I wasn't referring to your earlier objections. I was just pre-empting the rejection of the law of bivalence that some bystander may invoke. On a semi-interesting side note, these recent comments haven't been downvoted, so your aggressor has either stopped or temporarily left (hopefully the latter).

Comment author: ialdabaoth 05 January 2013 08:03:19AM -1 points [-]

Well, one thing I learned from my childhood - the more viciously self-deprecating and self-abusive I can be, the more likely it is that my aggressors will leave me alone and just watch.

Comment author: [deleted] 05 January 2013 08:09:56AM -2 points [-]

Ah, nice bit of wisdom there. You evade all of your abusers except for one: yourself. Ironically we've worked our way back to the topic of the article, because that can be useful as a signal; "don't bother dominating me, I already have that covered".

Comment author: ialdabaoth 05 January 2013 08:14:11AM -1 points [-]

That was partially deliberate; I derive wry amusement from taking things meta and then bringing them back around.