Douglas_Knight comments on Only You Can Prevent Your Mind From Getting Killed By Politics - Less Wrong

39 Post author: ChrisHallquist 26 October 2013 01:59PM

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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 26 October 2013 04:44:28PM 0 points [-]

If you read Stuart's original post, it's clear

I hate this rhetoric. I did read Stuart's post.

If you'd read Vaniver's comment, you'd agree that Stuart was acting in bad faith. So you didn't read it, but then you responded to it! It is extremely rude to respond to a comment you haven't read.

Comment author: ChrisHallquist 26 October 2013 04:51:58PM 5 points [-]

Do you have an actual argument that there was ambiguity in Stuart's post?

Comment author: Vaniver 27 October 2013 09:49:33PM 5 points [-]

How about Stuart_Armstrong's response to satt's comment? It looks to me like Stuart agrees there was ambiguity there.

(And, to be clear, by "ambiguity there" I am using ambiguity as a one-place word by choosing the maximum of the two-place ambiguity among the actual readers of the post. Stuart has no ambiguity about what Stuart meant, but Steven does, and so the one-place ambiguity is Steven's ambiguity.)

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 27 October 2013 02:04:20PM *  3 points [-]

If you'd read my comment, it's clear that I am objecting to your rhetoric. Only you can prevent the jump to the assumption that I have a dog in the fight.