Ah, reading back again, I realize I have committed several types of inferential silence in relation to your comment, in particular, I failed to upvote despite that I considered it discussion-relevant, even so far as using it as evidence to derive points I made in other comments without direct citation. I think the question at the end of your comment threw me off in that, not feeling an answer to your questions was necessary, I should not comment or interact with your post.

To answer your question, I refer to MarkL's comment: http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/iq6/inferential_silence/9sss I'm unsure if MarkL should rather have replied to your post instead of commenting separately, or if it makes much of a difference.