Vaniver comments on Rationality Quotes Thread April 2015 - Less Wrong
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But, of course, if you go to the disambiguation page, it points to the genus (that I linked) as another use of the word.
I agree that "trolling" describes a person's intention more cleanly than it describes a claim's truth, but the claim's truth remains more important to me than whether or not the claim-maker is trolling.
So, I went and looked it up. You do realize that he is complaining that she doesn't have enough Neanderthal admixture, right? (But even then, I don't think species-level distinctions capture his true point, so much as the selective pressures of living in civilization / the slow change of cultures.)