I saw this comment in Top Comments before reading the top-level post, and I thought the quote was by a human (as a reply to someone who was offended by the homo hypocritus explanation of something).
I am shocked that (according to Wei Dai’s page), this is now my most popular comment ever (with the runnerup at 39 points). It’s not that funny an insult of Robin, guys.
I took it that way, although since it was machine-generated there’s no ‘intent’ involved by the original speaker… Robin reminds me strongly of Hellman’s quote about cynicism—being an unpleasant way of telling the truth.
OK, I’m impressed.
I saw this comment in Top Comments before reading the top-level post, and I thought the quote was by a human (as a reply to someone who was offended by the homo hypocritus explanation of something).
I am shocked that (according to Wei Dai’s page), this is now my most popular comment ever (with the runnerup at 39 points). It’s not that funny an insult of Robin, guys.
The upvotes are flowing freely in this thread, because we’re all brimming with positive affect! Yay!
I don’t find it to be an insult of Robin at all. (And don’t get me started about the scary things that page shows.)
Is it even an insult of Robin?
I took it that way, although since it was machine-generated there’s no ‘intent’ involved by the original speaker… Robin reminds me strongly of Hellman’s quote about cynicism—being an unpleasant way of telling the truth.
At the time of writing, it had more upvotes than the OP… surely that’s not right?
Well, you know the old joke about the repairman: the $1 for the labor, $99 for know what to labor on!
Actually, it is.
That isn’t going to help me sleep at night.