gjm comments on Open thread, Nov. 16 - Nov. 22, 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gjm 18 November 2015 12:42:42PM 4 points [-]

Isn't it a joke? Not a very funny one, I have to say, but a joke. Person A posts something to LW that doesn't seem to have much relevance to LW. So person B replies with something comically-stereotypically LW that doesn't have much relevance to what A posted. There's a certain symmetry about it, and its irrelevance is also a way of saying "this doesn't belong here and so shouldn't be taken seriously". So I guess it's both a joke and a criticism.