In response to comment by Error on Don't Get Offended
Comment author: Dre 07 March 2013 05:24:27PM 1 point [-]

My strategy in situations like that is to try to get rid of all respect for the person. If to be offended you have to care, at least on some level, about what the person thinks then demoting them from "agent" to "complicated part of the environment" should reduce your reaction to them. You don't get offended when your computer gives you weird error messages.

Now this itself would probably be offensive to the person (just about the ultimate in thinking of them as low status), so it might not work as well when you have to interact with then often enough for them to notice. But especially for infrequent interactions and one time interactions I find this to be a good way to get through potentially offensive situations.

In response to comment by Dre on Don't Get Offended
Comment author: DiamondSoul 12 March 2013 04:12:17AM 0 points [-]

Oddly enough, I get much angrier at my computer for not working than I ever do at other humans. Though I wouldn't say I often get "offended" by either. I wonder how common this is?

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 11 March 2013 11:01:35PM 2 points [-]

witness the dicks on the Internet who use evo-psy as a weapon against feminism

What do you mean "use as a weapon against" and why is it obviously a bad thing? Would you say it's a fair complaint against EY that he uses Bayesianism as a "weapon against" religion?

Comment author: DiamondSoul 12 March 2013 03:41:56AM 7 points [-]

I believe what army means is that some people mistakenly use evo-psy to make claims along the lines of "we have evolved to have [some characteristic], therefore it is morally right for us to have [aforementioned characteristic]".

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