Jiro comments on Is Scott Alexander bad at math? - Less Wrong

31 Post author: JonahSinick 04 May 2015 05:11AM

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Comment author: Jiro 06 May 2015 05:18:47PM 1 point [-]

I think you are too quick to take disagreement personally. Interpreting disagreement as lack of respect is an example of this.

Comment author: dxu 06 May 2015 05:33:43PM 2 points [-]

I think it's more issues like tone, personally. (Particularly egregious are examples of "you are" statements, instead of "I feel" statements, which I've noticed many LWers seem really prone to making. It's a lot less pretentious-sounding when you prefix your statements with an "I feel" or "I think" or "in my opnion".)

Comment author: JonahSinick 06 May 2015 05:32:31PM 2 points [-]

You didn't answer my question: do you respect me? :-) You're not giving any positive feedback whatsoever. I don't care what you think of me, but it's reasonable for me to assume that you don't have any positive feelings toward me if you're not saying anything positive.

Comment author: Jiro 06 May 2015 05:35:53PM 2 points [-]

I respect you by my standards, but apparently not by your standards.

Comment author: itaibn0 07 May 2015 01:35:18AM 1 point [-]

Based on JonahSinick's prior comments, his motivation for asking this question is pretty clear. You have already critiqued the thought process that made him think this question is necessary, to attack it again is almost double-counting. I think if you had answered the question directly the discussion would have a better chance of bootstrapping out of mutual unintelligibility. Then again, I mostly lurk and only rarely participate in internet debates so I don't feel I really understand how any given discussion strategy would actually play out. Also, I cheated, since Jonah already expressed a desire for a direct answer.