I am not sure why you took “a new explanation” so seriously. I guess I have to be really careful on LessWrong to distinguish ideas from actual beliefs. I do not think it’s “The True Answer”. I just think it’s a rather obvious alternate explanation that should have occurred to me immediately, and didn’t, and I’m surprised about that, and about the fact that it didn’t seem to occur to Yvain either. I reworded some things to make it more obvious that I am not trying to present this as “The True Answer” but just as an idea.
Would you mind trying to avoid jumping to the conclusion that I’m acting stupid in the future, Kindly? I definitely don’t mind being told “Your statement could be interpreted as such-and-such stupid behavior, so you may want to change it.” but it’s a little frustrating when people speak to me as if they really believe I am as confused as your “The True Answer” interpretation would imply.
I’m not sure why you’re accusing me of this. I often disagree with people, but I usually don’t assume the people I disagree with are stupid. This is especially true when we disagree due to a misunderstanding.
(I don’t intend to continue this line of conversation.)
Well it’s my perception that it would be pretty stupid to jump to the conclusion that I had it all figured out just out of nowhere up there. If that’s not your perception, too, then it’s not—but that would be unexpected to me who holds the perception that it would be a kind of stupid thing to do. I don’t know what wording to use other than “Please try not to jump to the conclusion that I’m doing stupid things.” but just substitute “stupid” for whatever word you would use, and then please try not to jump to conclusions that I am doing whatever it is that you call that, okay?
I am not sure why you took “a new explanation” so seriously. I guess I have to be really careful on LessWrong to distinguish ideas from actual beliefs. I do not think it’s “The True Answer”. I just think it’s a rather obvious alternate explanation that should have occurred to me immediately, and didn’t, and I’m surprised about that, and about the fact that it didn’t seem to occur to Yvain either. I reworded some things to make it more obvious that I am not trying to present this as “The True Answer” but just as an idea.
Thank you, I appreciate that.
Would you mind trying to avoid jumping to the conclusion that I’m acting stupid in the future, Kindly? I definitely don’t mind being told “Your statement could be interpreted as such-and-such stupid behavior, so you may want to change it.” but it’s a little frustrating when people speak to me as if they really believe I am as confused as your “The True Answer” interpretation would imply.
I’m not sure why you’re accusing me of this. I often disagree with people, but I usually don’t assume the people I disagree with are stupid. This is especially true when we disagree due to a misunderstanding.
(I don’t intend to continue this line of conversation.)
Well it’s my perception that it would be pretty stupid to jump to the conclusion that I had it all figured out just out of nowhere up there. If that’s not your perception, too, then it’s not—but that would be unexpected to me who holds the perception that it would be a kind of stupid thing to do. I don’t know what wording to use other than “Please try not to jump to the conclusion that I’m doing stupid things.” but just substitute “stupid” for whatever word you would use, and then please try not to jump to conclusions that I am doing whatever it is that you call that, okay?