RichardKennaway 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: RichardKennaway 12 January 2015 01:42:40PM 0 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"?

One difference is that no-one ever says the latter.

Comment author: Romashka 12 January 2015 03:54:53PM 2 points [-]

'Pippin, don't throw that!' 'But why? What's going to happen?' 'I don't like the look of the water.' 'It looks just like it always does...' [tentacles creep out and try to wrap around the Fellowship] 'Guys, I think there are strong gender overtones here!' 'Next time, Pippin, say that water is wet.'

Comment author: Lumifer 12 January 2015 04:12:52PM 1 point [-]

Yep :-P No girls in the Fellowship.

P.S. That was a descriptive and not a normative statement X-D

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