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Comment author: [deleted] 23 October 2011 11:05:26PM 2 points [-]

DH1: Ad Hominem

It wasn't intended as a rebuttal; I have already provided that in another lengthy comment.

I was merely identifying TwistingFingers as a blatant troll. Just for fun:

Date: 26 September 2011

Many of us enjoy expressing ourselves through electronic games. As such, I feel that this aspect of our lives should be shared among our fellow gamers in the LessWrong community.

Juxtapose that with "Just do something: every moment you sit hundreds of thousands are dying and billions are suffering" written less than one month later.

Video games are a great way to reduce compartmentalization and learn real-world rationality skills.

Applause light/ more claims without evidence.

Indeed, what brings us together at LessWrong can often be our love of games; someone in the LessWrong community without this advantage might find learning rationality difficult [my italics].

An utterly ludicrous implication.

In this light, outreach into the transhumanist/rationalist community to promote gaming is low-hanging fruit for serving the future of humanity.

This sounds like Chomskybot applied to Lesswrong jargon.

Please consider this post a unique opportunity to begin discussion of this important issue and facilitate further debate in the near future.

Can you really not see that this guy is taking the Mickey?

Comment author: orthonormal 24 October 2011 01:07:04AM 5 points [-]

Another plausible interpretation of TF's flip-flopping is that a month ago, xe was here because xe thought it was a fun community, and then xe got "converted" into an earnestly zealous and quite naive Singularitarian. Much of TF's vitriol, then, would implicitly target xer lackadaisical past self in order to (consciously or unconsciously) distance xer current self from the pre-conversion self.

Mind you, I'm not checking TF's history myself, so this might be a bad guess. I'm just pointing out a pretty plausible alternate hypothesis.

Comment author: Prismattic 23 October 2011 11:53:06PM 5 points [-]

Can you really not see that this guy is taking the Mickey?

I realize that this a trivial issue, but if you care about inferential distance, I thought you should know that I had to look this expression up, and I suspect a lot of other non-UK readers would as well.

Comment author: ahartell 24 October 2011 12:43:11AM 3 points [-]

For those who don't know, Urban Dictionary says that "taking the Mickey" means "joking, or doing something without intent".

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