I’d rather live in a world where even if we disagree with each other, annoy each other, or waste each other’s time we still don’t say anybody isn’t cute.
There is a difference between rejecting a “Will is a cute troll” meme being used to justify sock-puppet bait-and-switch abuse—by specifically referring to the behavior being not-cute—and simply saying that someone is not cute apropos of nothing. Your equivocation is either disingenuous or just silly.
I have begun to suspect that Incorrect is a Will sockpuppet.
The thought crossed my mind when the edit to the ancestor made it clear that Incorrect was trolling rather than well meaning yet confused. I clicked “close” rather than “comment” on the “It looks like Incorrect is Will, I’m not going to feed him here or elsewhere”, for obvious reasons.
Even calling someone’s behavior non-cute is mean. Even meanness is cute. Once you start calling humans or the things they do non-cute you open the door to finding humans disgusting.
Even if we were to assume his behavior was trollish, damaging to lesswrong, and/or unproductive, that shouldn’t make it non-cute.
By that same argument murder is cute, rape is cute, arson is cute, genocide is cute—and you prefer to live in a world where people call these things cute than in a world where they call them non-cute.
There is a difference between rejecting a “Will is a cute troll” meme being used to justify sock-puppet bait-and-switch abuse—by specifically referring to the behavior being not-cute—and simply saying that someone is not cute apropos of nothing. Your equivocation is either disingenuous or just silly.
I have begun to suspect that Incorrect is a Will sockpuppet. Please cease to feed.
The thought crossed my mind when the edit to the ancestor made it clear that Incorrect was trolling rather than well meaning yet confused. I clicked “close” rather than “comment” on the “It looks like Incorrect is Will, I’m not going to feed him here or elsewhere”, for obvious reasons.
Please exterminate.
Here’s a conversation I had with Will a while back:
http://lesswrong.com/lw/cw1/open_problems_related_to_solomonoff_induction/6rlr?context=1#6rlr
But surely you agree that tricking people into saying “I think Will is Incorrect” is exactly the sort of thing that would amuse him?
This had better not start a trend of suspecting people with adjectival usernames to be sockpuppets.
Yours could also be interpreted as an adverb.
Even calling someone’s behavior non-cute is mean. Even meanness is cute. Once you start calling humans or the things they do non-cute you open the door to finding humans disgusting.
Even if we were to assume his behavior was trollish, damaging to lesswrong, and/or unproductive, that shouldn’t make it non-cute.
By that same argument murder is cute, rape is cute, arson is cute, genocide is cute—and you prefer to live in a world where people call these things cute than in a world where they call them non-cute.
You’re using the word “cute” wrongly.