Have you tried tackling them during a full blown-psychotic break? In Europe I figured out the solution to the P=NP problem and the hard problem of consciousness during a psychotic episode, but I subsequently forgot them due to a psychotic episode.
[I think that in general, comments with less than −10 karma should have at least one comment explaining why.]
I downvoted you because I believe you to be strongly false: either lying or deluded. This is due to my prior for “somebody solves two Hard Problems in a matter of days” being much lower than my prior for “somebody claims to have solved two Hard Problems in a matter of days”. In particular, people in altered mental states are often much more susceptible to false feelings of enlightenment. (See “Mysticism and Pattern-Matching” by Scott Alexander for related ideas and support for this argument.)
[I originally wrote this as a description of my beliefs about why people in general downvoted the parent, before remembering the LW comment rules (describe your ideas, not your idea of the consensus). This is one data point for the rules being effective.]
I downvoted this explanation because it’s uncharitable to claim that someone is either lying or deluded when it seems plausible that they were instead making a joke. Perhaps you have other reasons to think that Alephywr isn’t joking, but if so it’s worth explaining that.
Humor is hard. After seeing a bunch of Alephywr’s comments I do indeed think it was probably a joke, but delivery via text is hard and I think it’s understandable for someone to not consider that as a hypothesis.
In general it’s understandable not to consider that hypothesis. But when you are specifically making a pointed and insulting comment about another person, I think the bar should be higher.
I did not write the grandparent to insult Alephwyr. For instance, I wrote “I downvoted you” because I felt an obligation to prevent scenarios where somebody is strongly downvoted and doesn’t know why. You began your reply in the same way, but the grandfather has positive karma, so you can’t have meant the same thing. Either there is a misunderstanding, or you are mocking me, or you consider “I downvoted you because” to be purely antagonistic and are retaliating in kind, etc.
I agree with you, now, that Alephwyr could be joking. (Or insane or trolling. “He is either mad or writing poetry.”) I had taken the post at face value, and my comment was an accurate description of my reasoning. I appreciate your contribution to the discussion of “what is Alephwyr’s purpose?”, and I admit that you revealed an oversight in my thinking, but I think that you are being somewhat uncharitable to see something direct and assume that it is “specifically.… pointed and insulting.”
(I am straightforward, you are to the point, he is insensitive.)
Have you tried tackling them during a full blown-psychotic break? In Europe I figured out the solution to the P=NP problem and the hard problem of consciousness during a psychotic episode, but I subsequently forgot them due to a psychotic episode.
[I think that in general, comments with less than −10 karma should have at least one comment explaining why.]
I downvoted you because I believe you to be strongly false: either lying or deluded. This is due to my prior for “somebody solves two Hard Problems in a matter of days” being much lower than my prior for “somebody claims to have solved two Hard Problems in a matter of days”. In particular, people in altered mental states are often much more susceptible to false feelings of enlightenment. (See “Mysticism and Pattern-Matching” by Scott Alexander for related ideas and support for this argument.)
[I originally wrote this as a description of my beliefs about why people in general downvoted the parent, before remembering the LW comment rules (describe your ideas, not your idea of the consensus). This is one data point for the rules being effective.]
I downvoted this explanation because it’s uncharitable to claim that someone is either lying or deluded when it seems plausible that they were instead making a joke. Perhaps you have other reasons to think that Alephywr isn’t joking, but if so it’s worth explaining that.
Humor is hard. After seeing a bunch of Alephywr’s comments I do indeed think it was probably a joke, but delivery via text is hard and I think it’s understandable for someone to not consider that as a hypothesis.
In general it’s understandable not to consider that hypothesis. But when you are specifically making a pointed and insulting comment about another person, I think the bar should be higher.
I did not write the grandparent to insult Alephwyr. For instance, I wrote “I downvoted you” because I felt an obligation to prevent scenarios where somebody is strongly downvoted and doesn’t know why. You began your reply in the same way, but the grandfather has positive karma, so you can’t have meant the same thing. Either there is a misunderstanding, or you are mocking me, or you consider “I downvoted you because” to be purely antagonistic and are retaliating in kind, etc.
I agree with you, now, that Alephwyr could be joking. (Or insane or trolling. “He is either mad or writing poetry.”) I had taken the post at face value, and my comment was an accurate description of my reasoning. I appreciate your contribution to the discussion of “what is Alephwyr’s purpose?”, and I admit that you revealed an oversight in my thinking, but I think that you are being somewhat uncharitable to see something direct and assume that it is “specifically.… pointed and insulting.”
(I am straightforward, you are to the point, he is insensitive.)
I second this. (It would also be nice if that was visible though, but comments with karma that low are hidden, along with comments on them.)
I’m familiar with psychosis and your reply seems totally believable to me.