This should be a fun project. As usual, I wonder what your writing would be like without some of your “I need an opponent/”I need something to evangelize” baggage. I’m often tempted to make a parallel blog, which reproduces your and Robin’s posts from Overcoming Bias, with what I consider to be the weaker elements removed from them. For example I would extract sentences like “I’m a pure realist” and “Embrace reality. Hug it tight.” or at least modify them with sentences like “as far as I can tell, the pure realist approach models reality best”.
This should be a fun project. As usual, I wonder what your writing would be like without some of your “I need an opponent/”I need something to evangelize” baggage. I’m often tempted to make a parallel blog, which reproduces your and Robin’s posts from Overcoming Bias, with what I consider to be the weaker elements removed from them. For example I would extract sentences like “I’m a pure realist” and “Embrace reality. Hug it tight.” or at least modify them with sentences like “as far as I can tell, the pure realist approach models reality best”.
Given the Zeitgeist of the moment, if he wasn’t a bit confrontational he would have a lot less readers
What was the Zeitgeist?