Cached Remark for When Someone Asks How You Knew an Obscure Fact
"Every day, I ritually sacrifice part of my soul to appease Mnemosyne, the goddess of memory."
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Cached Reply Upon Being Told That I'm an Idiot
Not specific enough.
"What?"
You claim that I'm an idiot. Well, sure; I already knew that. If you could point to some specific way in which my thinking is confused and explain how I might do better, then I would be quite grateful. But to just say that I'm stupid, without elaborating, doesn't seem helpful.
(Words are useful insofar as they summarize information about the world. If everyone involved already has a detailed predictive model of someone's various cognitive abilities, then it doesn't matter whether you describe them as an "idiot" or a "genius". As compared to what?)
Cached Remark for When My Prediction of Abject Failure Comes True
I won't say I told you so except by means of apophasis.