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How would you express the sentiment: “This statement seems incoherent based on what I know about the subject. To be charitable, this implies that it means some
by jacobolus 7y ago
How would you express the sentiment:
“This statement seems incoherent based on what I know about the subject. To be charitable, this implies that it means something different than my interpretation, but was rendered confusing when simplified or expressed using terms pitched at laypeople. Could you please explain it using expert-targeted terminology or provide a citation to someone who does, so I can evaluate the claim on its merits instead of dismissing it as nonsense?”
In a concise but friendly/productive way?
- grzm 7y agoHere's my take: > "there is no gamma compression for red in the eye" I'm not familiar with this terminology, at least in this context. Would you mind expanding on this? If you've any references I might use, that would be helpful, too.
- dang 7y agoI might say "I don't understand what this means. Can you make it more precise?". Or even just "What does this mean?", which you started with. I'm sorry that I misinterpreted you. We're always matching comments against the most common patterns, and there are definitely comments that only appear to be matches and in reality weren't meant that way. There was another case of this yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20415246 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20415246.