I dispute that I frequently snap at people. I just read over my last hundred or so LessWrong comments and I don’t think any of them are well characterized as snapping at someone. I definitely agree that I sometimes do this, but I think it’s a pretty small minority of things I post. I think Eliezer’s median level of obnoxious abrasive snappiness (in LessWrong comments over the last year) is about my 98th percentile.
I think your top-level answer on this very post is pretty well-characterized as snapping at someone, or at least part of the broader category of abrasiveness that this post is trying to point to (and I was also broadly pointing to in my comment).
I also think if you look at all of Eliezer’s writing he will very rarely snap at people. The vast majority of his public writing this year are in If Anyone Builds It and the associated appendices, which as far as I can tell contain zero snapping/abrasiveness/etc. My sense is also approximately zero of his media interviews on the book have contained this thing (though I am less confident of this, since I haven’t seen them all).
I don’t super want to litigate this, though happy to talk with you about this. I do think you are basically #2 in terms of people who do this in my mind who I am socially close to (substantially above everyone else except maybe Eliezer in that list, and I don’t know where I would place you relative to him). You do this much less in public, and much more in person and semi-public.
I dispute that I frequently snap at people. I just read over my last hundred or so LessWrong comments and I don’t think any of them are well characterized as snapping at someone. I definitely agree that I sometimes do this, but I think it’s a pretty small minority of things I post. I think Eliezer’s median level of obnoxious abrasive snappiness (in LessWrong comments over the last year) is about my 98th percentile.
I think your top-level answer on this very post is pretty well-characterized as snapping at someone, or at least part of the broader category of abrasiveness that this post is trying to point to (and I was also broadly pointing to in my comment).
I also think if you look at all of Eliezer’s writing he will very rarely snap at people. The vast majority of his public writing this year are in If Anyone Builds It and the associated appendices, which as far as I can tell contain zero snapping/abrasiveness/etc. My sense is also approximately zero of his media interviews on the book have contained this thing (though I am less confident of this, since I haven’t seen them all).
I don’t super want to litigate this, though happy to talk with you about this. I do think you are basically #2 in terms of people who do this in my mind who I am socially close to (substantially above everyone else except maybe Eliezer in that list, and I don’t know where I would place you relative to him). You do this much less in public, and much more in person and semi-public.