Ryan, this is kind of a side-note but I notice that you have a very Paul-like approach to arguments and replies on LW.
Two things that come to notice:
You have a tendency to reply to certain posts or comments with “I don’t quite understand what is being said here, and I disagree with it.” or, “It doesn’t track with my views”, or equivalent replies that seem not very useful for understanding your object level arguments. (Although I notice that in the recent comments I see, you usually postfix it with some elaboration on your model.)
In the comment I’m replying to, you use a strategy of black-box-like abstraction modeling of a situation to try to argue for a conclusion, one that usually involves numbers such as multipliers or percentages. (I have the impression that Paul uses this a lot, and one concrete example that comes to mind is the takeoff speeds essay. I usually consider such arguments invalid when they seem to throw away information we already have, or seem to use a set of abstractions that don’t particularly feel appropriate to the information I believe we have.
I just found this interesting and plausible enough to highlight to you. Its a moderate investment of my time to find out examples from your comment history to highlight all these instances, but writing this comment still seemed valuable.
Ryan, this is kind of a side-note but I notice that you have a very Paul-like approach to arguments and replies on LW.
Two things that come to notice:
You have a tendency to reply to certain posts or comments with “I don’t quite understand what is being said here, and I disagree with it.” or, “It doesn’t track with my views”, or equivalent replies that seem not very useful for understanding your object level arguments. (Although I notice that in the recent comments I see, you usually postfix it with some elaboration on your model.)
In the comment I’m replying to, you use a strategy of black-box-like abstraction modeling of a situation to try to argue for a conclusion, one that usually involves numbers such as multipliers or percentages. (I have the impression that Paul uses this a lot, and one concrete example that comes to mind is the takeoff speeds essay. I usually consider such arguments invalid when they seem to throw away information we already have, or seem to use a set of abstractions that don’t particularly feel appropriate to the information I believe we have.
I just found this interesting and plausible enough to highlight to you. Its a moderate investment of my time to find out examples from your comment history to highlight all these instances, but writing this comment still seemed valuable.