Qiaochu_Yuan comments on Don't Get Offended - LessWrong

32 Post author: katydee 07 March 2013 02:11AM

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Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 10 March 2013 11:40:25AM -2 points [-]

Name three?

Comment author: wedrifid 10 March 2013 04:16:11PM *  16 points [-]

Name three?

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You are asking John to do something that is clearly unwise for him to do in a form typically used with the connotation that if the person does not comply it is because they can not. This is disingenuous.

Comment author: [deleted] 10 March 2013 04:45:38PM 3 points [-]

Good point, though he might reply to him in a private message.

Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 10 March 2013 07:33:30PM *  -2 points [-]

If John wants a problem to stop, it would be nice to first identify more clearly the source of the problem. Otherwise he's just doing the LW analogue of vaguebooking.

Comment author: evand 13 March 2013 04:46:56AM 5 points [-]

It's not obvious to me that "the source of the problem" and "the people most saliently exhibiting the symptoms" are the same thing. It's also not obvious to me that "the source of the problem" necessarily refers to any particular set of individuals.