TheOtherDave comments on Self-serving meta: Whoever keeps block-downvoting me, is there some way to negotiate peace? - Less Wrong

16 Post author: ialdabaoth 16 November 2013 04:35AM

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 21 November 2013 02:49:19PM 2 points [-]

So, I'm curious: did you actually misinterpret what ialdabaoth said as meaning that, or did you understand the literal meaning of his words but assume the underlying reality had been different, or did what ialdabaoth said actually mean that under an interpretive frame you still endorse, or something else/some combination?

Comment author: ChristianKl 21 November 2013 03:39:52PM 1 point [-]

I don't think that he intended to say that. On the other hand I don't have full information of what's happening and there are multiple theories that would explain the reality I observe.

I ask myself, what did ialdabaoth do, to provoke such a response? I myself think that I wrote plenty of controversial post in the past. I sometimes experienced someone downvoting 20 or 30 posts but never a really substantial amount, so that I would be worried about the affair.

The thread title is about negotiating peace. In general the notion of peace negotiations is about two sides who are at war with each other.

This information produces certain priors. ialdabaoth saying that he thinks it memetically contagious was then enough to voice that hypothesis.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 21 November 2013 04:12:35PM 1 point [-]

(nods) OK, I think I understood that. Thanks for answering my question.