No, she clearly gains from being able to post impersonal replies nested under my comments—just as she gains from making posts replying to my top-level posts, even though I could revoke this privilege, and she would be obligated, by symmetry, to honor it.
So, even if she really, truly doesn’t care about having to avoid my comments, and even she doesn’t get “peripheral psychological” damage from seeing the existence of my comments (which, truth be told, she probably doesn’t), then this state only exists because of diplomacy on my part—not from following the advice in this article.
I did rebut those retorts. Now, respond to those rebuttals, or stop making the same claim (and starting an information cascade).
No, you just explained why it would be instrumentally useful to YOU for her to intentionally like you.
No, she clearly gains from being able to post impersonal replies nested under my comments—just as she gains from making posts replying to my top-level posts, even though I could revoke this privilege, and she would be obligated, by symmetry, to honor it.
So, even if she really, truly doesn’t care about having to avoid my comments, and even she doesn’t get “peripheral psychological” damage from seeing the existence of my comments (which, truth be told, she probably doesn’t), then this state only exists because of diplomacy on my part—not from following the advice in this article.