Noumenon comments on Illusion of Transparency: Why No One Understands You - Less Wrong

57 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 October 2007 11:49PM

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Comment author: Noumenon 24 October 2007 08:18:40AM 3 points [-]

Talk about clever -- Mark illustrates this entire post in one sentence! He points out all these readings:

It should have been perfectly obvious to Julie that I was being sarcastic. (sarcastic) It should have been perfectly obvious to Julie that I was being sarcastic. (sincere) It should have been perfectly obvious to Julie that I was being sincere. (sarcastic) It should have been perfectly obvious to Julie that I was being sincere. (sincere)

and the point of the post is that you really can't tell from the text which way he means it or how he really felt.