The Kennedy speech lit a fire under a generation. Appending the ‘fuck you’ makes you sound like a truculent Reddit knuckle head. Grow up a bit and I’ll take you more seriously.
Actually, I think you were spot on. The curse was completely uncalled for and not helpful in any way, as I mentioned in this Twitter thread. This was the first email broadcast I ever opened from LessWrong—and will be the last as well. Unsubscribed.
P.S. I am not a prude and use curses in my language quite liberally. The problem for me was not the usage of the coarse language in and of itself, but the fact that it was directed at the reader for no reason whatsoever.
Good point, but I thought that casually insulting the reader for no reason whatsoever gave the post an aura of battle-readiness (perhaps a bit much of it), which is maybe the tone the author was going for.
The Kennedy speech lit a fire under a generation. Appending the ‘fuck you’ makes you sound like a truculent Reddit knuckle head. Grow up a bit and I’ll take you more seriously.
The juxtaposition of soaring rhetoric and coarse language still jars me but my comment is harsher than it needed to be. I apologize.
Actually, I think you were spot on. The curse was completely uncalled for and not helpful in any way, as I mentioned in this Twitter thread. This was the first email broadcast I ever opened from LessWrong—and will be the last as well. Unsubscribed.
P.S. I am not a prude and use curses in my language quite liberally. The problem for me was not the usage of the coarse language in and of itself, but the fact that it was directed at the reader for no reason whatsoever.
Good point, but I thought that casually insulting the reader for no reason whatsoever gave the post an aura of battle-readiness (perhaps a bit much of it), which is maybe the tone the author was going for.