I have started referring to myself as a dark wizard, where my powers have to do with learning about the world, interacting with people, and doing mathematics. It is nice in that it is a little too ridiculous to seem like bragging, makes people curious sometimes and doesn’t really stick me into a group except for “nerds,” and my loyalties there are already so solid I can’t do much about it.
I usually refer to LessWrongers as LessWrongians, or to the site as “My little corner of the Internet where there are constructive discussions and citations on everything.”
You just said “LessWronger” and “LessWrongian”. Using one nickname to refer to another nickname seems… weird. It seems you actually refer to them as “LessWrongers”.
I use both, the differing nicknames was intentional. I get the impression that LessWrongers is more common but I think LessWrongians sounds better, so I intended to use the more common label to refer to the more me-specific label; please excuse my illusion of transparency.
I am guessing you made that conclusion based on my use in the post, however another hypothesis occurs to me that you looked through my old comments and saw which was more common. If that is the case, and I’m wrong about my own usage, I’d be curious to know, but only curious enough to hear if you’d already looked it up, I don’t think it’s worth the trouble.
I will forgive your illusion of transparency if you will forgive my assumption that you were so lacking in self-awareness. I had recently read a number of sub-par comments and had forgotten that the majority of the posts/people on this site are well thought out/not typical blithering internet commenters.
My conclusion that you call them (us?) “LessWrongers” came from you using it first, which may actually have been foolish. If I think of a hypothetical person saying “I refer to ‘X’ as ‘Y’,” I expect “X” to be the common term and “Y” to be the nickname. I suppose I should have interpreted that in your writing, but I think I was thrown off by you using the word “LessWrongers” when the naming of that group is already what’s in discussion.
If, on a forum discussing whether facial tissue (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facial_tissue) should be called “tissues” or “Kleenex”, someone said “I usually refer to Kleenex as Puffs”, I would probably assume that they actually call them “Kleenex”, since until that point everyone had been using “facial tissues” except when suggesting the actual name they preferred.
I have started referring to myself as a dark wizard, where my powers have to do with learning about the world, interacting with people, and doing mathematics. It is nice in that it is a little too ridiculous to seem like bragging, makes people curious sometimes and doesn’t really stick me into a group except for “nerds,” and my loyalties there are already so solid I can’t do much about it.
I usually refer to LessWrongers as LessWrongians, or to the site as “My little corner of the Internet where there are constructive discussions and citations on everything.”
You just said “LessWronger” and “LessWrongian”. Using one nickname to refer to another nickname seems… weird. It seems you actually refer to them as “LessWrongers”.
I use both, the differing nicknames was intentional. I get the impression that LessWrongers is more common but I think LessWrongians sounds better, so I intended to use the more common label to refer to the more me-specific label; please excuse my illusion of transparency.
I am guessing you made that conclusion based on my use in the post, however another hypothesis occurs to me that you looked through my old comments and saw which was more common. If that is the case, and I’m wrong about my own usage, I’d be curious to know, but only curious enough to hear if you’d already looked it up, I don’t think it’s worth the trouble.
I will forgive your illusion of transparency if you will forgive my assumption that you were so lacking in self-awareness. I had recently read a number of sub-par comments and had forgotten that the majority of the posts/people on this site are well thought out/not typical blithering internet commenters.
My conclusion that you call them (us?) “LessWrongers” came from you using it first, which may actually have been foolish. If I think of a hypothetical person saying “I refer to ‘X’ as ‘Y’,” I expect “X” to be the common term and “Y” to be the nickname. I suppose I should have interpreted that in your writing, but I think I was thrown off by you using the word “LessWrongers” when the naming of that group is already what’s in discussion.
If, on a forum discussing whether facial tissue (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facial_tissue) should be called “tissues” or “Kleenex”, someone said “I usually refer to Kleenex as Puffs”, I would probably assume that they actually call them “Kleenex”, since until that point everyone had been using “facial tissues” except when suggesting the actual name they preferred.
Well, hopefully everything is cleared up now and no harm no foul. Your point is taken and I agree that my original phrasing was odd.