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brave and steely-eyed and morally pure and a bit terrifying… /testimonials /evil /leet .ask? .ask_long?

@philsandifer

And as for “gruesomely facile reading of Moore,” well, I did tip my hand to socialjusticemunchkin when I asked if their use of “promethea” was a Moore reference, the fact that it wasn’t and they haven’t read any Moore other than Watchmen was maybe best taken as a sign that getting into a Moore battle with me was a high-risk strategy. And sure enough, they failed to construct an accurate picture of Moore by extrapolating from one character in Watchmen, then ascribed their inaccurate picture to me, a doubly risky strategy given that Moore is my biggest single influence, so getting this one wrong is going to leave all sorts of knock-on errors.

This is kind of breaking my style, but I just want to address it explicitly: did you seriously think I was interested in actually getting into a Moore battle with you, on your territory (which I was well aware of), with your rules? That the only way you could interpret that part was your way, and thus promethea is a defective Phil Sandifer?

Because wow, this is so beautifully an example of the Mandatory Comprehensibility. I put stones on a board with a known checkers champion, after having told him that I know jack about checkers, who promptly proceeds to assume I’ve made a shitty checkers move when actually I’m building eyes for my go pattern.

Getting an accurate picture of Moore was never the point, arguing that Moore is not someone who can credibly impersonate AlphaGo to me was. I’m closer to AlphaGo than Moore himself is, and I notice that Moore played a really bad move even though he can fool amateurs. (As I said, I never promised to be humble.)

Now if you’re willing to argue that both Moore and you are closer to Doctor Manhattan than I am (Moore so that he could model him better, and you so that you could recognize a better modeling), then you are certainly welcome to present your evidence, but be aware that this kind of inhuman psychology is evidently not your territory just like Moore-litcrit is not mine.

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