(By “us” I meant specifically me and wedrifid, since I’ve been rebuked for being insensitive sufficiently often to recognize this property in my own writing, and wedrifid seems to me an outlier in this regard as well. I actually delete some comments I write (usually before publishing) to correct this tendency, after I notice that there is no easy “civilized” way of expressing my concerns and the point isn’t sufficiently important, and downvote instead. Just today I published such a comment and then deleted it.)
Hadn’t noticed the tendency in wedrified, but I recognized what you’re talking about (hence the original ‘extreme end of the spectrum.’) I think Less Wrongians are still more likely to prefer criticism than the average person.
(By “us” I meant specifically me and wedrifid, since I’ve been rebuked for being insensitive sufficiently often to recognize this property in my own writing, and wedrifid seems to me an outlier in this regard as well. I actually delete some comments I write (usually before publishing) to correct this tendency, after I notice that there is no easy “civilized” way of expressing my concerns and the point isn’t sufficiently important, and downvote instead. Just today I published such a comment and then deleted it.)
Hadn’t noticed the tendency in wedrified, but I recognized what you’re talking about (hence the original ‘extreme end of the spectrum.’) I think Less Wrongians are still more likely to prefer criticism than the average person.