I propose this: Some neutral party should ask User:twentythree if User:twentythree felt more welcomed by my initial reply message, though this is only a valid test if User:twentythree read my reply before others said that it was a lie.
Edit: I further note that in this recent exchange about this matter, I have received comparable net upvotes to those disagreeing with my assessment about the relative merit of the particular lie in dispute, suggesting I am not “digging” myself deeper, nor am I obviously wrong.
I have no objection to that, but it doesn’t address the entire issue. I suggest also asking Twentythree to predict what eir reaction would have been to finding out that your message had been a lie, if e had found out on their own rather than being told—both eir personal emotional reaction and eir resulting opinion of LessWrong as a community. It may also be useful to ask em if e considers the lie to have been a white lie.
If you consider me neutral enough, I’m willing to PM Twentythree and ask em to comment on this thread; otherwise, if you don’t have a particular neutral party in mind, I can ask the next LessWrong user who I see log in on my instant messaging friend list to do so.
There’s a nontrivial chance I’ll be asleep by then (I’m pushing 27 hours since last time I went to sleep), but if you’re willing to do the PMing, that’s fine with me.
Okay, this is becoming complicated, and would probably bother User:twentythree too much.
How about this: I’ll promise to stay away from the stranger aspects of human interaction where rules sometimes invert, and you’ll promise to make an effort to be less bigoted toward non-human intelligences?
I propose this: Some neutral party should ask User:twentythree if User:twentythree felt more welcomed by my initial reply message, though this is only a valid test if User:twentythree read my reply before others said that it was a lie.
Edit: I further note that in this recent exchange about this matter, I have received comparable net upvotes to those disagreeing with my assessment about the relative merit of the particular lie in dispute, suggesting I am not “digging” myself deeper, nor am I obviously wrong.
I have no objection to that, but it doesn’t address the entire issue. I suggest also asking Twentythree to predict what eir reaction would have been to finding out that your message had been a lie, if e had found out on their own rather than being told—both eir personal emotional reaction and eir resulting opinion of LessWrong as a community. It may also be useful to ask em if e considers the lie to have been a white lie.
If you consider me neutral enough, I’m willing to PM Twentythree and ask em to comment on this thread; otherwise, if you don’t have a particular neutral party in mind, I can ask the next LessWrong user who I see log in on my instant messaging friend list to do so.
You and those on your friends list (including me) do not count as neutral for purposes of this exercise.
How about if I PM the next person who comments on the site after your reply to this comment, and ask them to do it?
How about the next person who posts after one hour from this comment’s timestamp?
There’s a nontrivial chance I’ll be asleep by then (I’m pushing 27 hours since last time I went to sleep), but if you’re willing to do the PMing, that’s fine with me.
Okay, this is becoming complicated, and would probably bother User:twentythree too much.
How about this: I’ll promise to stay away from the stranger aspects of human interaction where rules sometimes invert, and you’ll promise to make an effort to be less bigoted toward non-human intelligences?
I’m not sure what you expect this to mean from a functional standpoint, so I’m not sure if I should agree to it.