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ChristianKl comments on Open Thread, Apr. 13 - Apr. 19, 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: ChristianKl 25 April 2015 08:01:11PM 2 points [-]

I notice a lack of humor among LessWrong posters. When I talked to a friend about completing my journey to the Dark Side via prostitute, he laughed at the joke.

In a text only medium you can't tell at all whether people who read what you write laugh.

In this case laughing at speaking about "the Dark Side" is also a simple mechanism to avoid dealing with the substance of the issue. Laughing to avoid dealing with moral questions is not in the spirit of LW.

Comment author: Dorikka 25 April 2015 09:14:14PM 0 points [-]

Did not read grandparent, but poes law is more likely to hold if speaker creates weak signals that a sentence is parody, compared to alterative hypotheses such as holding a curious view. When there is greater variance of views, a stonger signal is needed to provide same level of evidence