To me this just seems like a disconnect between the way language is parsed by the speaker and the listener. When I hear somebody say “Atlas Shrugged is the greatest book ever written” I don’t take it as the speaker’s literal belief, because almost nobody means such a statement in that way.
To me this just seems like a disconnect between the way language is parsed by the speaker and the listener. When I hear somebody say “Atlas Shrugged is the greatest book ever written” I don’t take it as the speaker’s literal belief, because almost nobody means such a statement in that way.
Unfortunately many people, particularly the vocal seemingly autistic cohort of writers on lesswrong wouldn’t understand that.
(This may or may be bait to see if any such people fail to pick up on the irony of responding critically to this reply)