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If aaron wants to indulge let him please go ahed. But this post is so insincere when it gives the bit about users loving perfectionism that it makes me dizzy. I

If aaron wants to indulge let him please go ahed. But this post is so insincere when it gives the bit about users loving perfectionism that it makes me dizzy. Its either insincere or is delusional.I don't want to have anything to do with either. PG wants to indulge with arc, he went ahed. But I don't remember him giving some insincere explanation. I am now a strong believer in motherfucker's theory of insincerity http://atomicwang.org/motherfucker/Index/E06C66BF-E7D5-48FF-9F7C-E6AD1B3F8F28.html http://atomicwang.org/motherfucker/Index/E06C66BF-E7D5-48FF-... (sorry, but that what he calls himself)

mattmaroon 19y ago
That post about sincerity is interesting but exactly, completely wrong. He's completely reversed the entire cause effect relationship. I'll write a blog post as to why.
- henning 19y ago
  quick! to the INTERNET, in order to correct the misconceptions of others! it never stops being tempting.
  - mattmaroon 19y ago
    That's kind of a silly way to look at discourse. All discourse is basically someone trying to correct the misconceptions of others.
    - patchwork 19y ago
      So is there anything besides misconception? Is there One True Conception, which defeats all others in internet debate?
      - mattmaroon 19y ago
        Internet debate gets a bad rep, but it's intrinsically no worse than any other written debate (which in and of itself is certainly the highest form of discourse man has ever invented). Sincere internet debate is perhaps 50% of what makes the medium useful (the other 50% being, of course, videos of kittens). Insincere internet debate is unfortunately 99% of the overall market and often clouds that fact. So if anything, there's your unified theory of sincerity. As for one true conception, I imagine it exists on many topics, though getting at it is rather tricky. I've certainly started to argue with people before only to find out, as I put it in writing, that I agreed with them, sometimes even for reasons they'd missed. So if the truth is so convoluted that you can never really know it, perhaps it functionally does not exist. I now feel my counter argument to the sincerity thing is overhyped though. I don't have enough time to make it live up. Please don't read, you'll only be let down.
  - pg 19y ago
    There's nothing wrong with correcting misconceptions. The most interesting scientific discoveries are usually of that form. And there is nothing special about the Internet; it's just a medium, and rapidly becoming the default one.

mattmaroon 19y ago

That post about sincerity is interesting but exactly, completely wrong. He's completely reversed the entire cause effect relationship. I'll write a blog post as to why.

henning 19y ago
quick! to the INTERNET, in order to correct the misconceptions of others! it never stops being tempting.
- mattmaroon 19y ago
  That's kind of a silly way to look at discourse. All discourse is basically someone trying to correct the misconceptions of others.
  - patchwork 19y ago
    So is there anything besides misconception? Is there One True Conception, which defeats all others in internet debate?
    - mattmaroon 19y ago
      Internet debate gets a bad rep, but it's intrinsically no worse than any other written debate (which in and of itself is certainly the highest form of discourse man has ever invented). Sincere internet debate is perhaps 50% of what makes the medium useful (the other 50% being, of course, videos of kittens). Insincere internet debate is unfortunately 99% of the overall market and often clouds that fact. So if anything, there's your unified theory of sincerity. As for one true conception, I imagine it exists on many topics, though getting at it is rather tricky. I've certainly started to argue with people before only to find out, as I put it in writing, that I agreed with them, sometimes even for reasons they'd missed. So if the truth is so convoluted that you can never really know it, perhaps it functionally does not exist. I now feel my counter argument to the sincerity thing is overhyped though. I don't have enough time to make it live up. Please don't read, you'll only be let down.
- pg 19y ago
  There's nothing wrong with correcting misconceptions. The most interesting scientific discoveries are usually of that form. And there is nothing special about the Internet; it's just a medium, and rapidly becoming the default one.