I’ve certainly wondered this! In spite of the ACX commenter I mentioned suggesting that we ought to reward people for being transparent about learning epistemics the hard way, I find myself not 100% sure if it’s wise or savvy to trust that people won’t just mark me down as like “oh, so quinn is probably prone to being gullible or sloppy” if I talk openly about my what my life was like before math coursework and the sequences.
I think that (for this thing and many others too), some people are going to mark you down for it and some people are going to mark you up for it. So the relevant question is not “will some people mark me down” but “what kinds of people will mark me down and what kinds of people will mark me up, and which one of those is the group that I care more about”.
I’ve certainly wondered this! In spite of the ACX commenter I mentioned suggesting that we ought to reward people for being transparent about learning epistemics the hard way, I find myself not 100% sure if it’s wise or savvy to trust that people won’t just mark me down as like “oh, so quinn is probably prone to being gullible or sloppy” if I talk openly about my what my life was like before math coursework and the sequences.
I think that (for this thing and many others too), some people are going to mark you down for it and some people are going to mark you up for it. So the relevant question is not “will some people mark me down” but “what kinds of people will mark me down and what kinds of people will mark me up, and which one of those is the group that I care more about”.
Well said