thescoundrel comments on Overcoming bias guy meme | quickmeme - Less Wrong

4 Post author: saliency 13 March 2013 04:56PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (77)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: thescoundrel 14 March 2013 02:46:45PM 3 points [-]

My complaint is that is either a euphemism for autistic (in which case, just say autistic- if that feel "Squicky", re-evaluate your statement), or it is so vague as to lose all meaning- someone with bi-polar disorder is non-neurotypical, but is no more likely to have made these than anyone else.

If you do mean specifically autistic, you may want to broaden your understanding of autism. Autism is not standard, it can present in many, many ways, including many that would not create this type of image. The images are indicative of a poor grasp of humor, and a poor grasp of the original subject matter, but I do not see a higher probability for an autistic person to create these against the general population.

Comment author: wedrifid 14 March 2013 03:01:13PM 2 points [-]

If you do mean

(It likely isn't your intention but I'm a little uncomfortable having these 'you' claims as replies to me when it isn't me to whom they apply.)

Comment author: thescoundrel 14 March 2013 05:11:28PM 0 points [-]

My apologies, I was meaning a more general "you", as in "the person who uses this phrase". Not directed at you you, just the common you, and you are certainly not the you I meant for "you" to refer to.

Comment author: wedrifid 14 March 2013 03:07:11PM *  1 point [-]

or it is so vague as to lose all meaning- someone with bi-polar disorder is non-neurotypical, but is no more likely to have made these than anyone else.

Not actually true (in the specific example, although I support your general objection about terminology misuse). In a hypo-manic phase someone is more likely to get caught up with the kinda-clever notion of making Hanson memes and get carried away dumping all his ideas, exercising less judgement and restraint than he otherwise would. (Of course some time later they would later be able to look at their work and see why it isn't funny and delete it. They are also more likely than average to come up with a whole bunch of awesome memes.)

Comment author: thescoundrel 14 March 2013 05:09:40PM 0 points [-]

Fair enough- I should have chosen a clearer example.

Comment author: wedrifid 15 March 2013 06:52:03AM 0 points [-]

Fair enough- I should have chosen a clearer example.

Sociopathy would be a perfect example (in the sense that I would expect them to be less likely to make terrible jokes like that). Dyslexia would work too. Definitely not schizophrenia though.