Yeah, I would have expected Jessica to get it, except that I suspect she’s also executing a strategy of habitual Socratic irony (but without my additional innovation of immediately backing down and unpacking the intent when challenged), which doesn’t work when both sides of a conversation are doing it.
I actually didn’t get it. I was confused but I didn’t consciously generate the hypothesis that it was ironic.
I think I don’t share the background assumption that it is overwhelmingly obvious that CFAR wouldn’t tell the truth about this in their handbook. I also reflectively endorse a policy of calling out things that could easily be mistaken for sincere (though not obvious sarcasm), in order to ensure common knowledge.
Yeah, I would have expected Jessica to get it, except that I suspect she’s also executing a strategy of habitual Socratic irony (but without my additional innovation of immediately backing down and unpacking the intent when challenged), which doesn’t work when both sides of a conversation are doing it.
I actually didn’t get it. I was confused but I didn’t consciously generate the hypothesis that it was ironic.
I think I don’t share the background assumption that it is overwhelmingly obvious that CFAR wouldn’t tell the truth about this in their handbook. I also reflectively endorse a policy of calling out things that could easily be mistaken for sincere (though not obvious sarcasm), in order to ensure common knowledge.