From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Mon Sep 15 1997 - 01:21:26 MDT
Anders Sandberg wrote:
>
> Damien Broderick <damien@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au> writes:
>
> > I hope people recognise (or even recognize) caustic irony, because I
> > certainly didn't mean to impugn the talents and Reality of extropians far &
> > wide. It might be unnecessary to add this footnote, but I've found that a
> > few people keep filing off the irony from my e-posts, so that my hard drive
> > gets horribly clogged with irony filings.
>
> But as was mentioned earlier, you can make neat artworks out of
> irony filings...
>
> Hmm, can caustic irony can be neutraliced by acid wit?
No, but acid wit can be neutralized by basic facts.
If I'm not getting too radical.
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