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99 Post author: lukeprog 15 September 2012 12:32AM

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Comment author: lukeprog 16 September 2012 04:58:37AM *  28 points [-]

All readers have a Greasemonkey script that rips all the qualifying words out of a post... I don't see why on Earth you'd expect any other message to come across than ["Eliezer's Sequences are mostly not original"].

Do you think most readers misinterpreted my post in that way? I doubt it. It looks to me like one person tweeted "Eliezer's Sequences mostly not original" — a misinterpretation of my post which I've now explicitly denied near the top of the post.

My guess now would be that I probably underestimate the degree to which readers misinterpreted my post (because my own intentions were clear in my mind, illusion of transparency), and that you probably overestimate the degree to which readers misinterpreted my post (because you seem to have initially misinterpreted it, and that misinterpretation diminishes several years of cognitive work that you are justly proud of).

Also: you seem to be focusing on the one tweeted misinterpretation and not taking into account that we have evidence that the post is also achieving its explicitly stated goals, as evidenced by many of the comments on this thread: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.