Comment on [Link] Lifehack Article Promoting LessWrong, Rationality Dojo, and Rationality: From AI to Zombies

Wed, 18 Nov 2015 22:59:40 GMT

To me, intentionally making abusive statements is trolling, which is the common definition of trolling: "make a deliberately offensive or provocative online posting with the aim of upsetting someone or eliciting an angry response from them," which is the first thing that comes up on Google search. Since abusive = offensive + provocative statements, meant to upset and anger, such as "creepy" etc., this to me equates to trolling. Moreover, OrphanWilde himself indicated he deliberately chose to make abusive statements, in response to jsteinhardt's encouragement of him to avoid making abusive statements. I am open to updating my beliefs about trolling, however.

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