PhilGoetz comments on Optimal rudeness - Less Wrong

-7 Post author: PhilGoetz 13 April 2013 03:48AM

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Comment author: PhilGoetz 14 April 2013 03:47:52PM *  0 points [-]

To clarify: You literally asked why it is unpleasant. Are you also implying that you don't understand why it is unpleasant? That's the default assumption when someone asks "Why X?" Because that is literally in-credible, I do not believe you don't understand why it's unpleasant.

Comment author: gwern 14 April 2013 05:52:06PM -1 points [-]

Are you also implying that you don't understand why it is unpleasant? That's the default assumption when someone asks "Why X?"

I have my own beliefs on why it might be perceived as 'unpleasant'; the question was Socratic.

Comment author: PhilGoetz 16 April 2013 03:39:13AM 0 points [-]

Why don't you just say what it is you're trying to say?