From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Fri Mar 21 2003 - 19:36:25 MST
Eliezer writes
> Lee Corbin wrote:
>
> > 5. Provoking threads whose entire purpose is to explain
> > *why* I personally am a troll
>
> The amazing thing, really, is that people *care* enough to analyze your
> psychology in detail. I get that too. Why is it that people dissect you
> and I, but not, say, Anders Sandberg or Damien Broderick?
Eliezer goes on to answer this question. Somehow, this does
not deter me from answering it myself. :-)
Well, not that it's anything to brag about, but some of us lead
with our jaws, so to speak. There can be something not a little
confrontational about how we phrase things. The only reason
I think that you have been less a target on this list than I
is that you are less ideological. (In a political sense.)
Now something *to* brag about is, as I was reminded by an
offline correspondent, I am number one in the race for
lowest karma. Gloat.
Moreover, that proves that I really ticked off someone politically,
because the aforementioned thread, it turned out, was powered only
by those upset with my political stance.
> It is because they are nicer.
That they are. A number of times I have seen Anders say to
someone *exactly* what I would have said. Yet it came out
much nicer. Sometimes I could see what about it was nicer,
but at other times it was a mystery. And I have seen Damien,
although sometimes rather mean to a newbie, will refrain from
saying what he's really thinking to someone out of courtesy,
and appears to restrain himself in other ways I can't quite
put my finger on.
> And possibly because you and I consciously use and *mention*
> declarative principles of rationality.
Well, you do that more than I do. Besides, why would that
itself upset anyone? We don't really have any anti-rationalists
I know of on this list.
> Someday I hope to become a nice rationalist.
Well, I'm already very nice---except, as I said for being
rather confrontational at times, and sometimes denouncing
nonsense rather uncompromisingly. But I too have a rather
long ways to go to get where Anders is.
Lee
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