1) Strangely, you defend your insulting comments about my name by .....
Oh. Sorry, Kawoomba, my mistake. You did not try to defend it. You just pretended that it wasn't there.
I mentioned your insult to some adults, outside the LW context ...... I explained that you had decided to start your review of my paper by making fun of my last name.
Every person I mentioned it to had the same response, which, paraphrased, when something like "LOL! Like, four-year-old kid behavior? Seriously?!"
2) You excuse your "abrasive tone" with the following words:
"My being abrasive has several causes, among them contrarianism against clothing disagreement in ever more palatable terms"
So you like to cut to the chase? You prefer to be plainspoken? If something is nonsense, you prefer to simply speak your mind and speak the unvarnished truth. That is good: so do I.
Curiously, though, here at LW there is a very significant difference in the way that I am treated when I speak plainly, versus how you are treated. When I tell it like it is (or even when I use a form of words that someone can somehow construe to be a smidgeon less polite than they should be) I am hit by a storm of bloodcurdling hostility. Every slander imaginable is thrown at me. I am accused of being "rude, rambling, counterproductive, whiny, condescending, dishonest, a troll ......". People appear out of the blue to explain that I am a troublemaker, that I have been previously banned by Eliezer, that I am (and this is my all time favorite) a "Known Permanent Idiot".
And then my comments are voted down so fast that they disappear from view. Not for the content (which is often sound, but even if you disagree with it, it is a quite valid point of view from someone who works in the field), but just because my comments are perceived as "rude, rambling, whiny, etc. etc."
You, on the other hand, are proud of your negativity. You boast of it. And.... you are strongly upvoted for it. No downvotes against it, and (amazingly) not one person criticizes you for it.
Kind of interesting, that.
If you want to comment further on the paper, you can pay the conference registration and go to Stanford University next week, to the Spring Symposium of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence*, where I will be presenting the paper.
If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post (even in Discussion), then it goes here.