Lumifer comments on Outside the Laboratory - Less Wrong
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Good. Do notice that, as opposed to you, I did not attempt to "make a generalization about human nature" on the basis of my personal experience.
Of course not.
I am not inclined to play fisking games (or lets-adjust-this-definition-to-split-the-hair-in-half games) on these forums. No, I do not agree with you. You have enough information to figure out how and why.
Ummm, here's one thing you said before:
You didn't offer any evidence or data to back this up.
It contradicts my personal experience.
Therefore you have committed the Lumifer Typical Mind Fallacy.
Please try to avoid it in the future.
Lol, then your personal experience doesn't even contradict my basic point.
Say what? You just redefined my words so that you could answer a different question.
I asked (among other things) if you agreed that there are foods which are "like an addiction (in the sense that some people feel compelled to overconsume such foods despite knowing or having received professional advice that they are consuming too much food)"
You reinterpreted that question as though I was asking whether certain foods are addictive. So that you could easily answer "no" using your own definition of "addictive."
Please answer the question I asked -- not the question you wish or imagine I asked.
Yes, I have enough information to make a pretty good guess as to why you are evading my question.