Aren’t most statements like this wanting to be on the meta level
I think in many cases it’s genuinely unclear. For reasons of humor my post kind of implies a fairly adversarial framing, where it often is going to be the case that people are intending to “go meta”, but I think you can invoke the idea of truth-seeking in a much softer way as well, were its not necessarily intended to be “meta” but often will end up getting you there anyway.
Even when you are fully intending to “go meta”, I believe my advice still applies.
I think in many cases it’s genuinely unclear. For reasons of humor my post kind of implies a fairly adversarial framing, where it often is going to be the case that people are intending to “go meta”, but I think you can invoke the idea of truth-seeking in a much softer way as well, were its not necessarily intended to be “meta” but often will end up getting you there anyway.
Even when you are fully intending to “go meta”, I believe my advice still applies.