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I'm mildly annoyed/confused/amused (depending on time of day) whenever I see an username that looks a lot like my own (eg Li***, or just L**** with five letters) on a quick scan on LessWrong and other internet forums,
Because I often scroll past the username quickly so it's easy for me to have indexical uncertainty, and think I said something that I in fact did not say, like a prefilled LLM.
One of my life aspirations is to post something offensively stupid somewhere, forget about the post, randomly encounter it later, fail to recognize it as mine and write an outraged reply to it.