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Comment author: hyporational 10 December 2013 09:40:07PM 0 points [-]

I'm not exactly sure what reference class you're referring to...

You understood me correctly.

I don't know what you intend for this sentence to mean.

I meant it's tempting to replace "eye colour" with something less neutral and "irrationality" with something more or less reliably insulting.

I share your preferences among the choices you lay out here.

I bet you have other choices in mind.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 12 December 2013 08:43:56PM 0 points [-]

I bet you have other choices in mind.

Specific ones? Not especially. But it's hard to know how to respond when someone concludes that C1 is superior to C2 and I agree, but I have no idea what makes the set (C1, C2) interesting compared to (C3, C4, .., Cn).

I mean, I suppose I could have asked you why you chose those two options to discuss, but to be honest, this whole thread has started to feel like I'm trying to nail Jell-O to a tree, and I don't feel like doing the additional work to do it effectively.

So I settled for agreeing with the claim, which I do in fact agree with.

Comment author: hyporational 13 December 2013 12:27:07AM 0 points [-]

I have no idea what makes the set (C1, C2) interesting

I find that difficult to believe.

I'm trying to nail Jell-O to a tree,

I suggest this is because all we had was Jell-O and nails in the first place, but of course there are also explanations (E1, E2, .., En) you might find more plausible :)