(nods) I agree that trying to induce davidpearce to learn something from me would likely be a waste of my time.

I'm not sure if trying to induce them to clarify their meaning is equally so, though it certainly could be.

E.g., if their response is that something like Clippy in this example is simply not possible, because a paperclip maximizer simply can't understand the minds of sentients, because reasons, then I'll just disagree. OTOH, if their response is that Clippy in this example is irrelevant because "understanding the minds of sentients" isn't being illustrated in this example, then I'm not sure if I disagree or not because I'm not sure what the claim actually is.