Lumifer comments on Outside the Laboratory - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Lumifer 17 December 2013 03:27:13AM -1 points [-]

You're not doing it either, y'know.

I'm neither proposing nor defending a hypothesis.

I did define "super-stimulus", but I don't think I tried to define "addictive" (and that's a slippery word, often defined to suit a particular stance).

Comment author: hyporational 17 December 2013 03:37:27AM 1 point [-]

Have you read this relevant article? It's confusing when you say you're disagreeing with a definition, when you actually mean you're disagreeing with the connotation.

Comment author: Lumifer 17 December 2013 04:21:46AM 0 points [-]

It's confusing when you say you're disagreeing with a definition, when you actually mean you're disagreeing with the connotation.

I am not sure what are you referring to...?

Comment author: hyporational 17 December 2013 04:43:54AM 1 point [-]

Addiction is "a slippery word, often defined to suit a particular stance".

Super-stimulus is "mostly used to demonize certain "bad" things (notably, sugar and salt) with the implication that people can't just help themselves and so need the government (or another nanny) to step in and impose rules.".

Sure, you finally explicitly said these things but you could have said you disagreed with the connotations in the first place, which would have made the discussion about definitions pointless and perhaps dissolved some disagreement.