You seem to have completely misunderstood the point of my UAP example, which was to point out something about titles, and not any of the other things you seem to have taken it to be. In particular:
I was not at all trying to argue for or against any particular view of what UAPs have what sort of explanation.
I was not at all making any claim about what an article about UAPs would contain, beyond (1) “I can imagine an article that covers roughly these points” and (2) “if so, I think X would be a poor title”.
I was not at all making any claim about what one should and shouldn’t trust any given bit of the government about.
I was not at all making any comment on the relative merits of trying to decide how to explain any particular UAP versus letting AOIMSG do it, though I’m a little puzzled by your comment since so far as I know the number of UAP-analyses AOIMSG has released so far is zero.
Yes, different places with different people and different incentives have different cultures. Maybe clickbait and misdirection are necessary when using Medium as a tool for extracting money from advertisers or readers. They will not go down well here.
Another thing that may not go down well here is if your goal in argument is recreation rather than truth-seeking. You’ve said several times that you came here looking for disagreement, but I don’t see any sign that any of that disagreement has caused you to reconsider anything even slightly.
Obviously my opinions on vaccines have precisely nothing to do with your article about resurrecting the dead, which is what this discussion was about before you 100% misunderstood an analogy I made. But, since you ask: I think vaccination is one of humanity’s greatest and most important inventions; I think the vast majority of concern about serious vaccine side-effects is grossly misplaced, and in many cases deliberately and dishonestly fostered by people who are happy to cause harm for financial or political gain; I think it’s likely that the COVID-19 vaccination programmes saved millions of lives; I think the error bars for these vaccines are much higher than for many others because they were developed and tested in a hurry, for a rapidly-mutating disease that hasn’t been around for long; it seems as if the benefits of booster doses may be fairly short-lived (and it’s not completely clear that they aren’t sometimes negative) and not reduce infectiousness very much; I have had three doses and will probably take a fourth when it is offered to me later this year; it might depend on whether I can get the bivalent version whIch I expect to be more beneficial and less likely sometimes-negative.
You seem to have completely misunderstood the point of my UAP example, which was to point out something about titles, and not any of the other things you seem to have taken it to be. In particular:
I was not at all trying to argue for or against any particular view of what UAPs have what sort of explanation.
I was not at all making any claim about what an article about UAPs would contain, beyond (1) “I can imagine an article that covers roughly these points” and (2) “if so, I think X would be a poor title”.
I was not at all making any claim about what one should and shouldn’t trust any given bit of the government about.
I was not at all making any comment on the relative merits of trying to decide how to explain any particular UAP versus letting AOIMSG do it, though I’m a little puzzled by your comment since so far as I know the number of UAP-analyses AOIMSG has released so far is zero.
Yes, different places with different people and different incentives have different cultures. Maybe clickbait and misdirection are necessary when using Medium as a tool for extracting money from advertisers or readers. They will not go down well here.
Another thing that may not go down well here is if your goal in argument is recreation rather than truth-seeking. You’ve said several times that you came here looking for disagreement, but I don’t see any sign that any of that disagreement has caused you to reconsider anything even slightly.
Obviously my opinions on vaccines have precisely nothing to do with your article about resurrecting the dead, which is what this discussion was about before you 100% misunderstood an analogy I made. But, since you ask: I think vaccination is one of humanity’s greatest and most important inventions; I think the vast majority of concern about serious vaccine side-effects is grossly misplaced, and in many cases deliberately and dishonestly fostered by people who are happy to cause harm for financial or political gain; I think it’s likely that the COVID-19 vaccination programmes saved millions of lives; I think the error bars for these vaccines are much higher than for many others because they were developed and tested in a hurry, for a rapidly-mutating disease that hasn’t been around for long; it seems as if the benefits of booster doses may be fairly short-lived (and it’s not completely clear that they aren’t sometimes negative) and not reduce infectiousness very much; I have had three doses and will probably take a fourth when it is offered to me later this year; it might depend on whether I can get the bivalent version whIch I expect to be more beneficial and less likely sometimes-negative.