I think your distinction makes a lot of sense here. IIRC Kitten argued somewhere else that the dunk was self-evident—taking morality too literally leads you to strange places and unintuitive conclusions, which I don’t necessarily agree with—but I agree with you in that it was more of a semantic stopsign (what a nice term) than a proper laconic takedown of an idea (which is really hard to do).
Funnily enough, politicalcompassmemes is the literally epitome of Scott’s bingo card idea, but it hasn’t seemed to result in the full Ostrich effect “head in sand” phenomenon he was worried about. Instead, it’s sort of fragmented into an inside joke community, which was sort of my point about memes serving the purpose of communicating humor/in-jokes.
I think your distinction makes a lot of sense here. IIRC Kitten argued somewhere else that the dunk was self-evident—taking morality too literally leads you to strange places and unintuitive conclusions, which I don’t necessarily agree with—but I agree with you in that it was more of a semantic stopsign (what a nice term) than a proper laconic takedown of an idea (which is really hard to do).
Funnily enough, politicalcompassmemes is the literally epitome of Scott’s bingo card idea, but it hasn’t seemed to result in the full Ostrich effect “head in sand” phenomenon he was worried about. Instead, it’s sort of fragmented into an inside joke community, which was sort of my point about memes serving the purpose of communicating humor/in-jokes.