It’s a parable’y way of saying “someone” and “the same someone as earlier”?
Indeed. Usually a stereotypical “person who doesn’t ‘get it’.”
I’ve always thought that one of the ultimate LW insults would be: “you’re so ‘the one’.”
I really didn’t get that impression. Read it just as neutral affectation.
It’s usually Eliezer’s foil; a person espousing the incorrect view he’s arguing against.
It’s a parable’y way of saying “someone” and “the same someone as earlier”?
Indeed. Usually a stereotypical “person who doesn’t ‘get it’.”
I’ve always thought that one of the ultimate LW insults would be: “you’re so ‘the one’.”
I really didn’t get that impression. Read it just as neutral affectation.
It’s usually Eliezer’s foil; a person espousing the incorrect view he’s arguing against.