I want to apologize for that comment in public. It was inappropriately personal and judgmental and I’m embarrassed to have said what I said.
My goal was to express deep and serious concern for your well being if this concern was well placed and otherwise shock you into seeing yourself from the outside and thereby perhaps lead you to be more thoughtful about your tone and content. Given my embarrassment, I sort of share your unhappiness about the upvoting, but not really surprised… Rather than being “retarded” its more precise to say that LW’s point system is substantially a signaling game where the aggregate behavior of the voter/software conglomeration promote (among other things) swiftly-posted science-flavored moralistic criticism with very little human charity/humor/warmth. This isn’t entirely bad (it creates an interesting space for conversations that seem to be impossible anywhere else on the net) but it’s not entirely healthy either.
If I was going to respond to your request for explanation at all it should have involved much more charity, humor, and warmth, but I messed up, and I’m sorry for any harm or distress that I’ve caused.
I want to apologize for that comment in public. It was inappropriately personal and judgmental and I’m embarrassed to have said what I said.
My goal was to express deep and serious concern for your well being if this concern was well placed and otherwise shock you into seeing yourself from the outside and thereby perhaps lead you to be more thoughtful about your tone and content. Given my embarrassment, I sort of share your unhappiness about the upvoting, but not really surprised… Rather than being “retarded” its more precise to say that LW’s point system is substantially a signaling game where the aggregate behavior of the voter/software conglomeration promote (among other things) swiftly-posted science-flavored moralistic criticism with very little human charity/humor/warmth. This isn’t entirely bad (it creates an interesting space for conversations that seem to be impossible anywhere else on the net) but it’s not entirely healthy either.
If I was going to respond to your request for explanation at all it should have involved much more charity, humor, and warmth, but I messed up, and I’m sorry for any harm or distress that I’ve caused.