I thought your comment was fine and the irony was obvious, but this kind of misunderstanding can be easily avoided by making the straightforward reading more boring, like so:
Given that CfAR is an organization which is specifically about seeking truth, one could safely assume that if the actual reason were “Many of the explanations here are intentionally approximate or incomplete because we predict that this handbook will be leaked and we don’t want to undercut our core product,” then the handbook would have just said that. To do otherwise would be to call the whole premise into question!
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.
I thought your comment was fine and the irony was obvious, but this kind of misunderstanding can be easily avoided by making the straightforward reading more boring, like so:
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.