alienist comments on The Importance of Sidekicks - LessWrong

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Comment author: Lumifer 11 January 2015 05:07:57AM 3 points [-]

I think that people often assume normatively prescriptive intent when one makes a statement like that

Can you unroll this? What do you see as the crucial difference between "I think there are strong gender overtones here" and "I think that water is wet"?

What creates the "reasonable assumption" that the statement is normative when the text doesn't specify it?

Comment author: alienist 12 January 2015 03:06:56AM 8 points [-]

What do you see as the crucial difference between "I think there are strong gender overtones here" and "I think that water is wet"?

The fact that that a lot of people saying the first, but not the second, intend to prescriptive connotations.

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