Ishaan comments on The best 15 words - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Ishaan 07 October 2013 11:46:04PM -2 points [-]

If "violating Gricean principles" = willfully misunderstanding what was meant, I wasn't.

The trouble with what ismeant by "your in the wrong room" is that while it can be taken to mean "seek out intellectual superiors" is also means "avoid intellectual inferiors". I meant to contest the latter.

Comment author: [deleted] 08 October 2013 04:46:30AM 0 points [-]

How so? “You're the smartest person in the room” means that you have no intellectual superiors in there. It doesn't mean you have no intellectual inferiors -- that'd be “you're not the dumbest person in the room”.