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TheOtherDave comments on How do you interpret your "% positive"? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 11 April 2013 03:59:32PM 8 points [-]

Coming from almost anyone else on this site, I would take a comment like this at face value without further thought.

Coming from you, I find I have roughly equal confidence that you mean it at face value, that you mean it ironically to express its opposite, and that you mean it to be taken at face value despite in fact meaning the opposite. For that matter, I have non-negligible (though significantly lower) confidence that you mean it to cause precisely this confusion in long-time readers.

I thought you might appreciate knowing that.