It’s really mean to say someone isn’t cute and although this entire thread isn’t very productive I find it mean that my comment rejecting the meanness to WN was selectively deleted.
Alternately, it is toxic to describe trolling behavior as ‘cute’ when it isn’t, and hasn’t been either cute or particularly witty or intelligent in a long time. This. Behavior. Is. Not. Cute.. It is lame.
I’d rather live in a world where even if we disagree with each other, annoy each other, or waste each other’s time we still don’t say anybody isn’t cute.
The opposite of cute is disgusting and is not a concept that should be applied to humans.
I’d rather live in a world where even if we disagree with each other, annoy each other, or waste each other’s time we still don’t say anybody isn’t cute.
There is a difference between rejecting a “Will is a cute troll” meme being used to justify sock-puppet bait-and-switch abuse—by specifically referring to the behavior being not-cute—and simply saying that someone is not cute apropos of nothing. Your equivocation is either disingenuous or just silly.
I have begun to suspect that Incorrect is a Will sockpuppet.
The thought crossed my mind when the edit to the ancestor made it clear that Incorrect was trolling rather than well meaning yet confused. I clicked “close” rather than “comment” on the “It looks like Incorrect is Will, I’m not going to feed him here or elsewhere”, for obvious reasons.
Even calling someone’s behavior non-cute is mean. Even meanness is cute. Once you start calling humans or the things they do non-cute you open the door to finding humans disgusting.
Even if we were to assume his behavior was trollish, damaging to lesswrong, and/or unproductive, that shouldn’t make it non-cute.
By that same argument murder is cute, rape is cute, arson is cute, genocide is cute—and you prefer to live in a world where people call these things cute than in a world where they call them non-cute.
It’s really mean to say someone isn’t cute and although this entire thread isn’t very productive I find it mean that my comment rejecting the meanness to WN was selectively deleted.
Alternately, it is toxic to describe trolling behavior as ‘cute’ when it isn’t, and hasn’t been either cute or particularly witty or intelligent in a long time. This. Behavior. Is. Not. Cute.. It is lame.
I’d rather live in a world where even if we disagree with each other, annoy each other, or waste each other’s time we still don’t say anybody isn’t cute.
The opposite of cute is disgusting and is not a concept that should be applied to humans.
Example 54084954 of that fact that true-seeking and politeness are not correlated.
Also, a little fallacy of gray. Someone could be zero on the cute/disgusting scale, if even if it were so awful to label them disgusting.
Cuteness is a subjective evaluation, a way to interpret reality, not a fact.
There is a difference between rejecting a “Will is a cute troll” meme being used to justify sock-puppet bait-and-switch abuse—by specifically referring to the behavior being not-cute—and simply saying that someone is not cute apropos of nothing. Your equivocation is either disingenuous or just silly.
I have begun to suspect that Incorrect is a Will sockpuppet. Please cease to feed.
The thought crossed my mind when the edit to the ancestor made it clear that Incorrect was trolling rather than well meaning yet confused. I clicked “close” rather than “comment” on the “It looks like Incorrect is Will, I’m not going to feed him here or elsewhere”, for obvious reasons.
Please exterminate.
Here’s a conversation I had with Will a while back:
http://lesswrong.com/lw/cw1/open_problems_related_to_solomonoff_induction/6rlr?context=1#6rlr
But surely you agree that tricking people into saying “I think Will is Incorrect” is exactly the sort of thing that would amuse him?
This had better not start a trend of suspecting people with adjectival usernames to be sockpuppets.
Yours could also be interpreted as an adverb.
Even calling someone’s behavior non-cute is mean. Even meanness is cute. Once you start calling humans or the things they do non-cute you open the door to finding humans disgusting.
Even if we were to assume his behavior was trollish, damaging to lesswrong, and/or unproductive, that shouldn’t make it non-cute.
By that same argument murder is cute, rape is cute, arson is cute, genocide is cute—and you prefer to live in a world where people call these things cute than in a world where they call them non-cute.
You’re using the word “cute” wrongly.