Sam, trolling isn’t acceptable here, and what you just did is pretty much the definition of trolling—trying to sucker people into answering in a way that you’ll then use into further inflaming things.
You don’t have the capacity to at the same time say “It applies to you” and to also pretend to have said “I didn’t mean to say that it applies to you”. And you definitely don’t have the capacity to say “The fact you wrongly believed I thought it applied to you, proves that my belief is true when I believe it applies to you”.
So downvoted. Since you’re following the same tactic in lots of threads, I’ll be now downvoting without further comment whenever you follow remotely similar trollish tactics.
So downvoted. Since you’re following the same tactic in lots of threads, I’ll be now downvoting without further comment whenever you follow remotely similar trollish tactics.
I’ll add that I will be downvoting any comment by sam0345 without reading it at all. If the person behind sam0345 decides not to be a troll and still wants to post on LW then he can create a new identity and start again.
Sam, trolling isn’t acceptable here, and what you just did is pretty much the definition of trolling—trying to sucker people into answering in a way that you’ll then use into further inflaming things.
That you, and others, misread my post as referring to LW reflects on you and LW, not me. I had no intent, nor expectation, that my post would be misread. Your misreading reveals your bias. While I claim to be good at predicting you, and claim that to the extent that LW acts like a hive mind, that mind is predictable, predictably wrong in predictable ways, and predictably foolish in being too smart by half, I did not predict this misreading.
Had I cleverly intended to be misread in order to reveal your irrational biases, would have been more ambiguous. The references to ROTC and to university admission unambiguously points away from Less Wrong. I erred in crediting you (you the monolithic hive mind) with more rationality than you displayed, expecting you to read a post that unambiguously referred to academia as referring to academia.
Sam, trolling isn’t acceptable here, and what you just did is pretty much the definition of trolling—trying to sucker people into answering in a way that you’ll then use into further inflaming things.
You don’t have the capacity to at the same time say “It applies to you” and to also pretend to have said “I didn’t mean to say that it applies to you”. And you definitely don’t have the capacity to say “The fact you wrongly believed I thought it applied to you, proves that my belief is true when I believe it applies to you”.
So downvoted. Since you’re following the same tactic in lots of threads, I’ll be now downvoting without further comment whenever you follow remotely similar trollish tactics.
I’ll add that I will be downvoting any comment by sam0345 without reading it at all. If the person behind sam0345 decides not to be a troll and still wants to post on LW then he can create a new identity and start again.
That you, and others, misread my post as referring to LW reflects on you and LW, not me. I had no intent, nor expectation, that my post would be misread. Your misreading reveals your bias. While I claim to be good at predicting you, and claim that to the extent that LW acts like a hive mind, that mind is predictable, predictably wrong in predictable ways, and predictably foolish in being too smart by half, I did not predict this misreading.
Had I cleverly intended to be misread in order to reveal your irrational biases, would have been more ambiguous. The references to ROTC and to university admission unambiguously points away from Less Wrong. I erred in crediting you (you the monolithic hive mind) with more rationality than you displayed, expecting you to read a post that unambiguously referred to academia as referring to academia.