gwern comments on Terminology Thread (or "name that pattern") - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 05 August 2014 08:41:29PM *  1 point [-]

So to reiterate my previous question - you know, since you're totally not trolling or anything, and you're definitely arguing in good faith, and you're surely not going to reply with just some more rhetoric and attempts to shame or nitpick irrelevant wording, in this thread or others - what is your actual problem with these concepts? Do you have data which refutes the relevant concepts entirely? Or what?

So, it's "bullshit" when I ask you to clarify what you mean, but it's okay for you to ask me to clarify what I am saying, even though you've made it absolutely clear that you have no intention whatsoever of listening to my point of view, have already made up your mind that I am wrong and refuse to listen to any contrary arguments, interpret everything I say through the filter of presuming bad faith, and are here simply to insult me? A discussion is a cooperative process. I can't explain something to someone whose motive isn't to understand, but to attack.

Exactly as predicted. I think we're done here.