It is a skill to not correct people when they mis-interprit you as having said something clever.

Other anti-epistemological tricks include feeling justified in not understanding something if you make it look like your own ignorance and inability to read should be blamed on someone or something other than your own to-be-damned self.

LessWrong, you guys sucked at hermeneutics long before I decided to fuck with you about it—you sucked at it ever since you decided to adopt Eliezer's flaws along with his strengths. (I guess that's what happens if you're not already a somewhat skilled rationalist before you try to learn rationality from a single guru. Not your fault, but, it is your fault if you get self-righteous about your own to-be-damned ignorance.) If you were smart you'd know how to read this comment as something other than a political attack, but you're not, so you won't. Wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to irrationality; the night is dark and full of bias.