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polymathwannabe comments on Group Rationality Diary, January 1-15 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: polymathwannabe 03 January 2015 03:13:27AM 2 points [-]

It's not difficult to detect sarcasm on the internet

if you can't sense someone's good intentions [...] then it's certainly not only unhealthy for you but also for the environment

You are overestimating people's capacity for mind-reading.

Worst of all you can ask if the person is sarcastic and you're gonna have all confusion cleared.

If you honestly believe that, the people at 4chan will have so much fun with you.

those people like clicking buttons and not voicing their opinion which means their opinion means nothing

Alternative hypothesis worth considering: you're lost beyond the help of an opinion.

Also a question for you as you're the only one man enough to actually reply instead of downvote

I'm a man. And you know what being a man means. I don't believe in justifying yourself

You have some very toxic assumptions about what masculinity means. For your information, there is more than one way to be a man, and none is less valid than any other.

when you've got a goal and it's important enough for you to basically give the finger to social standards can anyone really say anything to you?

Well, yes, of course they can. The ends don't justify the means, remember?

One day I'll achieve greatness and you will be telling heroic tales of downvoting to your children.

Now you sound megalomaniacal. Is it seriously your goal to achieve legendary greatness to be forever remembered... within an internet forum?