No, the comment was spot-on. This has no place on LW. Fake comic-rationalism and ridiculous over-literal interpretations do not assist anyone in understanding anything.
More specifically: this link should be removed because the linked post pretends to misunderstand an interaction in a way that demeans someone not participating in the discussion.
edit: it’s possible (even likely, from reading other parts of that blog) that the lack of understanding wasn’t fake. Even so, there needs to be an acknowledgement that the confusion was due to atypical social understanding, not some intent to deceive or underlying ambiguity that requires any discussion.
The irony of your comment is that your own lack of understanding (namely your original idea that Zack was “pretending” to misunderstand) is almost as bad a misunderstanding as the one in the post.
in a way that demeans someone not participating in the discussion
How is this relevant? Like, if I have a map that I claim reflects the territory, and you’re saying that my map demeans someone who’s not here, that doesn’t say anything about whether the map predicts features of the territory that, in fact, aren’t there.
atypical social understanding, not [...] underlying ambiguity
This is kind of mind-projection-fallacious. Situations that look unambiguous if your expectations are already calibrated to them can be a lot harder to decipher for people with atypical social understanding, like foreigners, children, or (in this case) otherwise-mostly-ordinary adults recovering from a psychotic break.
No, the comment was spot-on. This has no place on LW. Fake comic-rationalism and ridiculous over-literal interpretations do not assist anyone in understanding anything.
More specifically: this link should be removed because the linked post pretends to misunderstand an interaction in a way that demeans someone not participating in the discussion.
edit: it’s possible (even likely, from reading other parts of that blog) that the lack of understanding wasn’t fake. Even so, there needs to be an acknowledgement that the confusion was due to atypical social understanding, not some intent to deceive or underlying ambiguity that requires any discussion.
The irony of your comment is that your own lack of understanding (namely your original idea that Zack was “pretending” to misunderstand) is almost as bad a misunderstanding as the one in the post.
In some ways, it’s worse. And if it weren’t already here, my post wouldn’t belong on LessWrong either.
How is this relevant? Like, if I have a map that I claim reflects the territory, and you’re saying that my map demeans someone who’s not here, that doesn’t say anything about whether the map predicts features of the territory that, in fact, aren’t there.
This is kind of mind-projection-fallacious. Situations that look unambiguous if your expectations are already calibrated to them can be a lot harder to decipher for people with atypical social understanding, like foreigners, children, or (in this case) otherwise-mostly-ordinary adults recovering from a psychotic break.