1) Strangely, you defend your insulting comments about my name by …..
Oh. Sorry, Kawoomba, my mistake. You did not try to defend it. You just pretended that it wasn’t there.
I mentioned your insult to some adults, outside the LW context …… I explained that you had decided to start your review of my paper by making fun of my last name.
Every person I mentioned it to had the same response, which, paraphrased, when something like “LOL! Like, four-year-old kid behavior? Seriously?!”
2) You excuse your “abrasive tone” with the following words:
“My being abrasive has several causes, among them contrarianism against clothing disagreement in ever more palatable terms”
So you like to cut to the chase? You prefer to be plainspoken? If something is nonsense, you prefer to simply speak your mind and speak the unvarnished truth. That is good: so do I.
Curiously, though, here at LW there is a very significant difference in the way that I am treated when I speak plainly, versus how you are treated. When I tell it like it is (or even when I use a form of words that someone can somehow construe to be a smidgeon less polite than they should be) I am hit by a storm of bloodcurdling hostility. Every slander imaginable is thrown at me. I am accused of being “rude, rambling, counterproductive, whiny, condescending, dishonest, a troll …...”. People appear out of the blue to explain that I am a troublemaker, that I have been previously banned by Eliezer, that I am (and this is my all time favorite) a “Known Permanent Idiot”.
And then my comments are voted down so fast that they disappear from view. Not for the content (which is often sound, but even if you disagree with it, it is a quite valid point of view from someone who works in the field), but just because my comments are perceived as “rude, rambling, whiny, etc. etc.”
You, on the other hand, are proud of your negativity. You boast of it. And.… you are strongly upvoted for it. No downvotes against it, and (amazingly) not one person criticizes you for it.
Kind of interesting, that.
If you want to comment further on the paper, you can pay the conference registration and go to Stanford University next week, to the Spring Symposium of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence*, where I will be presenting the paper.
You may not have heard of that organization. The AAAI is one of the premier publishers of academic papers in the field of artificial intelligence.
I’m a bit disappointed that you didn’t follow up on my points, given that you did somewhat engage content-wise in your first comment (the “not-a-response-response”). Especially given how much time and effort (in real life and out of it) you spent on my first comment.
Instead, you point me at a conference of the A … A … I? AIAI? I googled that, is it the Association of Iroquois and Allied Indians? It does sound like some ululation kind thing, AIAIAIA!
You’re right about your comments and mine receiving different treatment in terms of votes.
I, too, wonder what the cause could be. It’s probably not in the delivery; we’re both similarily unvarnished truth’ers (although I go for the cheaper shots, to the crowd’s thunderous applause). It’s not like it could be the content.
Imagine a 4 year old with my vocabulary, though. That would be, um, what’s the word, um, good? Incidentally, I’m dealing with an actual 4 year old as I’m typing this comment, so it may be a case of ‘like son, like father’.
1) Strangely, you defend your insulting comments about my name by …..
Oh. Sorry, Kawoomba, my mistake. You did not try to defend it. You just pretended that it wasn’t there.
I mentioned your insult to some adults, outside the LW context …… I explained that you had decided to start your review of my paper by making fun of my last name.
Every person I mentioned it to had the same response, which, paraphrased, when something like “LOL! Like, four-year-old kid behavior? Seriously?!”
2) You excuse your “abrasive tone” with the following words:
“My being abrasive has several causes, among them contrarianism against clothing disagreement in ever more palatable terms”
So you like to cut to the chase? You prefer to be plainspoken? If something is nonsense, you prefer to simply speak your mind and speak the unvarnished truth. That is good: so do I.
Curiously, though, here at LW there is a very significant difference in the way that I am treated when I speak plainly, versus how you are treated. When I tell it like it is (or even when I use a form of words that someone can somehow construe to be a smidgeon less polite than they should be) I am hit by a storm of bloodcurdling hostility. Every slander imaginable is thrown at me. I am accused of being “rude, rambling, counterproductive, whiny, condescending, dishonest, a troll …...”. People appear out of the blue to explain that I am a troublemaker, that I have been previously banned by Eliezer, that I am (and this is my all time favorite) a “Known Permanent Idiot”.
And then my comments are voted down so fast that they disappear from view. Not for the content (which is often sound, but even if you disagree with it, it is a quite valid point of view from someone who works in the field), but just because my comments are perceived as “rude, rambling, whiny, etc. etc.”
You, on the other hand, are proud of your negativity. You boast of it. And.… you are strongly upvoted for it. No downvotes against it, and (amazingly) not one person criticizes you for it.
Kind of interesting, that.
If you want to comment further on the paper, you can pay the conference registration and go to Stanford University next week, to the Spring Symposium of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence*, where I will be presenting the paper.
You may not have heard of that organization. The AAAI is one of the premier publishers of academic papers in the field of artificial intelligence.
I’m a bit disappointed that you didn’t follow up on my points, given that you did somewhat engage content-wise in your first comment (the “not-a-response-response”). Especially given how much time and effort (in real life and out of it) you spent on my first comment.
Instead, you point me at a conference of the A … A … I? AIAI? I googled that, is it the Association of Iroquois and Allied Indians? It does sound like some ululation kind thing, AIAIAIA!
You’re right about your comments and mine receiving different treatment in terms of votes.
I, too, wonder what the cause could be. It’s probably not in the delivery; we’re both similarily unvarnished truth’ers (although I go for the cheaper shots, to the crowd’s thunderous applause). It’s not like it could be the content.
Imagine a 4 year old with my vocabulary, though. That would be, um, what’s the word, um, good? Incidentally, I’m dealing with an actual 4 year old as I’m typing this comment, so it may be a case of ‘like son, like father’.
See the below reply, which took so long to write that I only just posted it.