[lisper]

Of course you know things I don't. Everyone over the age of 2 probably knows things I don't. Why would you even ask such a stupid question with such an obvious answer? And why did you phrase it in such a pretentious way? "Possess knowledge that you do not" -- who talks like that?

Oh, right. Trolls. Trolls talk like that.

Silly me.

[mistermann]

Does this have any affect on your belief that "so you cannot possibly have any basis for assessing my understanding or lack thereof" is a true statement?

[lisper]

Begone, troll.

[mistermann]

Implicitly declaring victory again are we? And if not: what is it that you are doing?

[lisper]

What are you doing if not trolling? Do you think this is a competition? What do you think the prize is? You do realize there's no audience here, right? No one is paying attention to this thread any more.

[mistermann]

> What are you doing if not trolling?

Not sure what to call it....~"Analysis of the logical & epistemic cognitive performance of Humans on Internet Message Boards"? Something like that I guess. I try not to overthink it and just have fun, makes the whole thing much more optimal at this stage, in my estimation.

> Do you think this is a competition?

I very much think of it like that. A video game analogy ("world building" genres like Sim City, etc) is extremely fitting.

> What do you think the prize is?

At the grand scale: the well being of Humanity.

> You do realize there's no audience here, right?

I am not able to "realize" that, because I have had extremely different training than you.

> No one is paying attention to this thread any more.

It isn't possible for you to know this. Do you even realize that? Like seriously, are you joking when you make these comments or what?

EDIT: I noticed something:

>> Implicitly declaring victory again are we? And if not: what is it that you are doing?

You didn't answer my question. That's weird.

[lisper]

> I very much think of it like that.

Well, there's your problem right there.

(https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/well-theres-your-problem just in case you don't get the allusion.)

If you stopped approaching HN as a contest you might see better outcomes.

> "world building" genres like Sim City

Sim City was a non-competitive single-player game the last time I played it. That was a long time ago so maybe things have changed. But be that as it may, "game" and "competition" are not synonyms. The distinguishing characteristic of a competition is that there are necessarily winners and losers.

> I have had extremely different training than you.

Do tell. You don't have any links in your profile so you apparently want to remain anonymous, which is fine. But then you can't blame me when I draw my conclusions about you based solely on what I observe you doing here, because that is all the data I have.

> It isn't possible for you to know this.

Oh, the irony. Is your memory really so poor that you don't recall giving me a hard time for saying the exact same thing two days ago?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40253122

You really need to read the latest installment in my series:

https://blog.rongarret.info/2024/05/languages-are-theories-d...