Your defense of Alicorn is at +1. Your original remark is at −6. This is because the former comment was appropriate, and the latter not.
Edit 5/27: I have been reminded that the primary reason given for downvoting the original comment was that it was rude, not that it was a reply to Alicorn—I had forgotten this, and left a misleading impression as a consequence.
I hope you know this already, but your social coprocessor is crap, dude. You really need to put in some hard work developing a better set of heuristics, because you’ve been making a lot of blunders, and it’s turning people off.
Your defense of Alicorn is at +1. Your original remark is at −6. This is because the former comment was appropriate, and the latter not.
The defense of Alicorn was at 0 earlier today, and long ago it went negative very quickly. It has nothing to do with appropriateness and everything to do with Alicorn wanting to impose unreasonable rules on me out of some misguided spite.
I hope you know this already, but your social coprocessor is crap, dude.
Thanks—I’m glad that won’t work as a self-fulfilling prophesy or anything, and it’s not the kind of thing you could have said privately—very thoughtful of you.
You really need to put in some hard work developing a better set of heuristics, because you’ve been making a lot of blunders, and it’s turning people off.
Well, I’m glad to know that on a site like LW, I will be given more patience because of the understanding of non-neurotypicality, so long as you use Alicorn rather than SilasBarta as your handle.
Thanks—I’m glad that won’t work as a self-fulfilling prophesy or anything, and it’s not the kind of thing you could have said privately—very thoughtful of you.
SilasBarta, let me tell you something. I am bad with names. Very, very bad with names. So bad that I know a guy who made bet that I wouldn’t know the name of his friend, who I had been hanging out with for years—and won the bet. If someone tells me in public, “Robin, you are terrible with names”, I have no grounds whatsoever to take that as an insult. It would be like being insulted that people thought I was a man. I have a beard, no breasts, and worse recall for names than the average parakeet, and all these things are painfully obvious in a short period of time.
SIlasBarta, you get caught up in more flamewars than almost anyone on Less Wrong. Drop the conspiracy theorists and you’re a lock. That’s a warning sign, man, just as much as the crazy differential between people knowing my name and my knowing theirs—it’s a clue that you’re in the wrong tail of the distribution. If you want to say that Alicorn is on the same side of the peak, I won’t argue with you, but that’s Alicorn’s problem, not yours. You need to figure out what you’re doing that can explain why the population gets peeved at you more often than it does at other people, because the difference is too large to explain by chance.
Your defense of Alicorn is at +1. Your original remark is at −6. This is because the former comment was appropriate, and the latter not.
Edit 5/27: I have been reminded that the primary reason given for downvoting the original comment was that it was rude, not that it was a reply to Alicorn—I had forgotten this, and left a misleading impression as a consequence.
I hope you know this already, but your social coprocessor is crap, dude. You really need to put in some hard work developing a better set of heuristics, because you’ve been making a lot of blunders, and it’s turning people off.
The defense of Alicorn was at 0 earlier today, and long ago it went negative very quickly. It has nothing to do with appropriateness and everything to do with Alicorn wanting to impose unreasonable rules on me out of some misguided spite.
Thanks—I’m glad that won’t work as a self-fulfilling prophesy or anything, and it’s not the kind of thing you could have said privately—very thoughtful of you.
Well, I’m glad to know that on a site like LW, I will be given more patience because of the understanding of non-neurotypicality, so long as you use Alicorn rather than SilasBarta as your handle.
SilasBarta, let me tell you something. I am bad with names. Very, very bad with names. So bad that I know a guy who made bet that I wouldn’t know the name of his friend, who I had been hanging out with for years—and won the bet. If someone tells me in public, “Robin, you are terrible with names”, I have no grounds whatsoever to take that as an insult. It would be like being insulted that people thought I was a man. I have a beard, no breasts, and worse recall for names than the average parakeet, and all these things are painfully obvious in a short period of time.
SIlasBarta, you get caught up in more flamewars than almost anyone on Less Wrong. Drop the conspiracy theorists and you’re a lock. That’s a warning sign, man, just as much as the crazy differential between people knowing my name and my knowing theirs—it’s a clue that you’re in the wrong tail of the distribution. If you want to say that Alicorn is on the same side of the peak, I won’t argue with you, but that’s Alicorn’s problem, not yours. You need to figure out what you’re doing that can explain why the population gets peeved at you more often than it does at other people, because the difference is too large to explain by chance.
Request reason for downmod.