I don’t know to what you refer either, but I can guess. The thing is, my guesses haven’t been doing very well lately, so I would appreciate some feedback. Were you suggesting that you would have thought that taw should have more easily understood your point, but he didn’t (because inferential distance between you was greater than expected)?
I don’t know to what you refer either, but I can guess.
I admit was being obscure so I’m rather impressed that you followed my reasoning—especially since it included a reference that you may not be familiar with. I kept it obscure because I wanted the focus to be on my confusion while minimising slight to taw.
Actually this whole post-thread has been eye opening and or confusing and or surprising to me. I’ve been blinking and double taking all over the place: “people think?”, “that works?”, etc. What surprised me most (and in a good way) was the degree to which all the comments have been a net positive. Political and personal topics so often become negative sum but this one didn’t seem to.
As a newcomer to LW, it has certainly impressed me. I’ve never before seen a discussion where the topic was “Is this guy we all respect a loon?” and the whole discussion is filled with clever arguments and surprising connections being drawn by all concerned—most particularly by the purported/disputed loon himself.
I wouldn’t have believed it possible if I hadn’t participated in it myself.
I am confused. Something has gone terribly wrong with my inferential distance prediction model.
And I have no idea what you refer to.
Approximately this entire comment branch.
I don’t know to what you refer either, but I can guess. The thing is, my guesses haven’t been doing very well lately, so I would appreciate some feedback. Were you suggesting that you would have thought that taw should have more easily understood your point, but he didn’t (because inferential distance between you was greater than expected)?
I admit was being obscure so I’m rather impressed that you followed my reasoning—especially since it included a reference that you may not be familiar with. I kept it obscure because I wanted the focus to be on my confusion while minimising slight to taw.
Actually this whole post-thread has been eye opening and or confusing and or surprising to me. I’ve been blinking and double taking all over the place: “people think?”, “that works?”, etc. What surprised me most (and in a good way) was the degree to which all the comments have been a net positive. Political and personal topics so often become negative sum but this one didn’t seem to.
As a newcomer to LW, it has certainly impressed me. I’ve never before seen a discussion where the topic was “Is this guy we all respect a loon?” and the whole discussion is filled with clever arguments and surprising connections being drawn by all concerned—most particularly by the purported/disputed loon himself.
I wouldn’t have believed it possible if I hadn’t participated in it myself.