I think they should do so on Less Wrong where we should aim to have insanely exceptionally high standards of group epistemology.
One of the ways we do this is by telling people when they are writing things that are batshit insane. Because you were. It wasn’t deep. It was obfuscated, scattered and generally poor quality thought. You may happen to be personally aweseome. Your recent comments, however, sucked. Not “were truly enlightened but the readers were not able to appreciate it”. They just sucked.
Sorry, which comments sucked? The majority of my recent comments have been upvoted, and very few were particularly obfuscated. I had one post that was largely intended to troll people and another comment that was intended to be for the lulz and which I obviously don’t think people should be mining for gold. (Which is why I said many times in the comment that it was poor quality syncretism and also bolded that it was just for fun.)
(Tangential: Is “batshit insane” Nesov’s vocabulary? It’s been mine for awhile.)
(Sorry for that, I usually need some time to debug a thought into a form I actually endorse. Don’t believe all things I say in real time, I disagree with some of them too, wait for a day to make sure. The comment was fixed before I read this echo.)
(Sorry for that, I usually need some time to debug a thought into a form I actually endorse. Don’t believe all things I say in real time, I disagree with some of them too, wait for a day to make sure.)
(The phrase was Will’s, which you adopted in your reply and I in turn used in mine. Origins traced.)
Interesting. So I was primed, generated the same phrase without realizing it was the priming, the phrase was sufficiently unfamiliar that I made a google search to more accurately see its connotations, used and posted it anyway, but then recognized that it didn’t paint an adequate picture. The process of debugging the details is such a bore, but the only way that works.
The ones referred to by Wei_Dai in the comment you were refuting/dismissing.
(Tangential: Is “batshit insane” Nesov’s vocabulary? It’s been mine for awhile.)
Yes, reading your comment in more detail I found that you used it yourself so removed the disclaimer. I didn’t want to introduce the term without it being clear to observers that I was just adopting the style from the context.
One of the ways we do this is by telling people when they are writing things that are batshit insane. Because you were. It wasn’t deep. It was obfuscated, scattered and generally poor quality thought. You may happen to be personally aweseome. Your recent comments, however, sucked. Not “were truly enlightened but the readers were not able to appreciate it”. They just sucked.
Sorry, which comments sucked? The majority of my recent comments have been upvoted, and very few were particularly obfuscated. I had one post that was largely intended to troll people and another comment that was intended to be for the lulz and which I obviously don’t think people should be mining for gold. (Which is why I said many times in the comment that it was poor quality syncretism and also bolded that it was just for fun.)
(Tangential: Is “batshit insane” Nesov’s vocabulary? It’s been mine for awhile.)
(Sorry for that, I usually need some time to debug a thought into a form I actually endorse. Don’t believe all things I say in real time, I disagree with some of them too, wait for a day to make sure. The comment was fixed before I read this echo.)
(The phrase was Will’s, which you adopted in your reply and I in turn used in mine. Origins traced.)
Interesting. So I was primed, generated the same phrase without realizing it was the priming, the phrase was sufficiently unfamiliar that I made a google search to more accurately see its connotations, used and posted it anyway, but then recognized that it didn’t paint an adequate picture. The process of debugging the details is such a bore, but the only way that works.
Fascinating. Now I have to look up the phrase to see what the precise meaning of “batshit insane” term is too, just in case I am using it wrong. :)
The ones referred to by Wei_Dai in the comment you were refuting/dismissing.
Yes, reading your comment in more detail I found that you used it yourself so removed the disclaimer. I didn’t want to introduce the term without it being clear to observers that I was just adopting the style from the context.