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Comment author: wedrifid 14 March 2012 02:56:58PM 2 points [-]

I am sick of being accused of being disingenuous, using dark arts and countless other things like asking "rhetorical questions".

Using somewhat different language this is exactly what you declare about yourself. Those things which you describe so casually as your own preferred behaviors are seen by those with a lesswrong mindset as disengenuity and the abuse of the dark arts. That isn't necessarily a bad thing - you'd fit right in at MENSA for example, aside from the entry requirement I suppose - it just isn't received well on lesswrong.

Comment author: Bugmaster 14 March 2012 08:05:42PM 0 points [-]

That isn't necessarily a bad thing - you'd fit right in at MENSA for example, aside from the entry requirement I suppose - it just isn't received well on lesswrong.

Was that some sort of a dig at Mensa, or XiXiDu, or both ? I know next to nothing about Mensa, so I feel like I'm missing the context here... Aren't they just a bunch of guys who solve IQ tests as a hobby ?

Comment author: wedrifid 14 March 2012 09:26:27PM 1 point [-]

Was that some sort of a dig at Mensa, or XiXiDu, or both ?

Neither, more of a mild compliment combined with an acknowledgement that the lesswrong way is not the only way - or even particularly common.

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