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-19 Post author: ThisSpaceAvailable 06 August 2014 08:22PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 06 August 2014 08:32:54PM 2 points [-]

Having followed the original thread with some interest, I find the whole situation somewhat amusing. If anything, gwern should have stopped engaging you earlier rather than later, but that's his noble phantasm -- and so here we are.

I imagine this now follows a death spiral of some sort, where you forum-seek for someone, somewhere, who agrees with you on this minor political point.

Comment author: ThisSpaceAvailable 06 August 2014 09:11:03PM *  -2 points [-]

So, "people shouldn't be assholes" is a minor political point? If this is such minor point, why did EY write an entire article on the point, and why is this article one of the most prominently linked-to article?

but that's his noble phantasm

Being an asshole is noble?

Comment author: somervta 07 August 2014 02:44:54AM 3 points [-]

'noble phantasm' is probably a reference to Fate/Stay Night, wherein a noble phantasm is a weapon or object of unusual reknown which a certain class of beings have that grants them signature powers.

Comment author: ThisSpaceAvailable 15 August 2014 05:42:49AM 1 point [-]

Do you have something substantive to say about why gwern should have stopped engaging with me?