I deleted it for such poor reading comprehension and adversarially selective quotation of the Facebook post in question—
(which is over 2200 words long and has tons of relevant context that softens the impression of the above text, which also didn’t contain the added bolding that pushes it in an even more straw direction)
—that it was inescapably either malice or negligence sufficiently advanced so as to be indistinguishable from malice. I would’ve greatly preferred that DirectedEvolution take the hint rather than reposting elsewhere, but since that hint was not taken I am now banning DirectedEvolution from being able to do any similarly shitty psychologizing on my future posts (and lodging this brief defense of myself, which I would have preferred not to have to write in the first place, and was with the original deletion trying to avoid needing to write).
From that same Facebook post:
I’m just going to blurt words and blame the lack of artistry and sophistication on insomniac COVID delirium
...
And yeah, it’s actually fine 99.9% of the time, the thing I’m saying here isn’t, like, “it’s impossible to coordinate or cooperate with humans.” I drive on roads. I shop at grocery stores. I engage in chitchat with Uber drivers and people at the airport.
And from discussion beneath it:
re: felt sense of strong fear, it’s not that I’m actually, like, nervous-system activated at all times? I do not walk around feeling viscerally anxious, for the most part. I think I *do* shift into high-alert faster and on smaller bits of evidence than most people.
DirectedEvolution’s overt attempt to categorize me as mentally ill, and my models suspect based purely on that categorization, is unjustified and not particularly welcome, LessWrong’s enthusiasm for upvoting shitty behavior notwithstanding.
(I also found a bunch of the reasoning in the four bullet points to be pretty poor, but that just made me unenthusiastic about trying to bridge gaps; it was the last paragraph that earned intended-to-be-silent deletion.)
I deleted it for such poor reading comprehension and adversarially selective quotation of the Facebook post in question—
(which is over 2200 words long and has tons of relevant context that softens the impression of the above text, which also didn’t contain the added bolding that pushes it in an even more straw direction)
—that it was inescapably either malice or negligence sufficiently advanced so as to be indistinguishable from malice. I would’ve greatly preferred that DirectedEvolution take the hint rather than reposting elsewhere, but since that hint was not taken I am now banning DirectedEvolution from being able to do any similarly shitty psychologizing on my future posts (and lodging this brief defense of myself, which I would have preferred not to have to write in the first place, and was with the original deletion trying to avoid needing to write).
From that same Facebook post:
And from discussion beneath it:
DirectedEvolution’s overt attempt to categorize me as mentally ill, and my models suspect based purely on that categorization, is unjustified and not particularly welcome, LessWrong’s enthusiasm for upvoting shitty behavior notwithstanding.
(I also found a bunch of the reasoning in the four bullet points to be pretty poor, but that just made me unenthusiastic about trying to bridge gaps; it was the last paragraph that earned intended-to-be-silent deletion.)