I suppose one of my recent complaints about the rationalist community, on LessWrong and elsewhere, is that I feel like I am having to adjust my identity matrix away from the identity. There are certain subjects that I keep seeing people being wrong about, in the sense that they make more mistakes in a given direction, and then when they are called out on those mistakes, they acknowledge them in a begrudging way, with the tone of “I was wrong, but it’s unfair to call me out on being wrong for this issue”.
I’m purposefully avoiding mentioning any specific examples here, but I will note that in this essay, there were at least two times when I felt like what you were saying was outright false or implied something that was false, in the same manner as the statements in the Lincoln and Marx article. Usually I’m willing to overlook these moments in your writing, using the translation matrix I have built up, but it felt like carelessness to do that in an article condemning people for doing that.
I understand that without giving examples, I don’t open the door to very much useful discussion. That’s because I don’t expect the comment section here to be able to discuss this issue without devolving into object-level discussion, and because I don’t expect to have the conversational bandwidth to respond to comments to this very much.
You are welcome to PM me which two things you think they were. I think 2 such statements in 35 pages written at this speed is not that bad a rate, but I’d prefer it be zero.
And in general, I don’t see a way around talking about it if we want to fix it, and that seems like a good use of a comments section?
If you could PM me as well with details I’d greatly appreciate it; I promise not to debate you on object-level issues here (even if I think you’re horrifically incorrect). I rely heavily on this community for information I don’t have time to research myself, so being aware of such meta-issues is really important to me.
I suppose one of my recent complaints about the rationalist community, on LessWrong and elsewhere, is that I feel like I am having to adjust my identity matrix away from the identity. There are certain subjects that I keep seeing people being wrong about, in the sense that they make more mistakes in a given direction, and then when they are called out on those mistakes, they acknowledge them in a begrudging way, with the tone of “I was wrong, but it’s unfair to call me out on being wrong for this issue”.
I’m purposefully avoiding mentioning any specific examples here, but I will note that in this essay, there were at least two times when I felt like what you were saying was outright false or implied something that was false, in the same manner as the statements in the Lincoln and Marx article. Usually I’m willing to overlook these moments in your writing, using the translation matrix I have built up, but it felt like carelessness to do that in an article condemning people for doing that.
I understand that without giving examples, I don’t open the door to very much useful discussion. That’s because I don’t expect the comment section here to be able to discuss this issue without devolving into object-level discussion, and because I don’t expect to have the conversational bandwidth to respond to comments to this very much.
You are welcome to PM me which two things you think they were. I think 2 such statements in 35 pages written at this speed is not that bad a rate, but I’d prefer it be zero.
And in general, I don’t see a way around talking about it if we want to fix it, and that seems like a good use of a comments section?
If you could PM me as well with details I’d greatly appreciate it; I promise not to debate you on object-level issues here (even if I think you’re horrifically incorrect). I rely heavily on this community for information I don’t have time to research myself, so being aware of such meta-issues is really important to me.
That’s pretty good, as it goes. 10% of people will grudgingly admit they are wrong , and 1% will do it gladly. The rest...never.
90% of everything is crap.