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@mxchara@seattle.pink I'm using "lying" here to mean "saying something you know is false, on purpose". Normally when people say lying they mean "saying something false, on purpose, with the intent of being believed", so I'm clarifying here that sarcasm is like lying but without the intent of being believed. A lot of autistic people I've met are afraid of "saying falsehoods" in any context, because "that's lying", which is why I bothered to mention autistic people in this post clarifying the difference. I would argue that a reducto ad absurdum, as you've described it, is definitely sarcasm, and it's sarcasm for the same reason as I'm describing: taking an absurd conclusion as true would require a large update to my priors.