There’s a difference between “hey, I want to understand the underpinnings of this” and the thing I described, which is hostile to the point of “why are you even here, then?”
Yes, and that’s why I described the attitude as “dysfunctionally dissonant” (emphasis in original). It’s not a good way of challenging the instructors, and not the way I recommend behaving.
What I’m talking about is how a healthy gym environment is robust to this sort of dysfunctional dissonance, and how to productively relate to unskilled dissonance by practicing skillfully enough yourself that the system’s combined dysfunction never becomes supercritical and instead decays towards productive cooperation.
it’s way overconfident/projection-y to extrapolate “deeply dysfunctional” from what I said.
That’s certainly one possibility. But isn’t it also conceivable though that I simply see underlying dynamics (and lack thereof) which you don’t see, and which justify the confidence level I display?
It certainly makes sense to track the hypothesis that I am overconfident here, but ironically it strikes me as overconfident to be asserting that I am being overconfident without first checking things like “Can I pass his ITT”/”Can I point to a flaw in his argument that makes him stutter if not change his mind”/etc.
To be clear, my view here is based on years of thinking about this kind of problem and practicing my proposed solutions with success, including in a literal martial arts gym for the last eight years. Perhaps I should have written more about these things on LW so my confidence doesn’t appear to come out of nowhere, but I do believe I am able to justify what I’m saying very well and won’t hesitate to do so if anyone wants further explanation or sees something which doesn’t seem to fit. And hey, if it turns out I’m wrong about how well supported my perspective is, I promise not to be a poor sport about it.
jimmy above is exhibiting actually bad reasoning (à la representativeness)
In absence of an object level counterargument, this is textbook ad hominem. I won’t argue that there isn’t a place for that (or that it’s impossible that my reasoning is flawed), but I think it’s hard to argue that it isn’t premature here. As a general rule, anyone that disagrees with anyone can come up with a million accusations of this sort, and it isn’t uncommon for some of it to be right to an extent, but it’s really hard to have a productive conversation if such accusations are used as a first resort rather than as a last resort. Especially when they aren’t well substantiated.
I see that you’ve deactivated your account now so it might be too late, but I want to point out explicitly that I actively want you to stick around and feel comfortable contributing here. I’m pushing back against some of the things you’re saying because I think that it’s important to do so, but I do not harbor any ill will towards you nor do I think what you said was “ridiculous”. I hope you come back.
Yes, and that’s why I described the attitude as “dysfunctionally dissonant” (emphasis in original). It’s not a good way of challenging the instructors, and not the way I recommend behaving.
What I’m talking about is how a healthy gym environment is robust to this sort of dysfunctional dissonance, and how to productively relate to unskilled dissonance by practicing skillfully enough yourself that the system’s combined dysfunction never becomes supercritical and instead decays towards productive cooperation.
That’s certainly one possibility. But isn’t it also conceivable though that I simply see underlying dynamics (and lack thereof) which you don’t see, and which justify the confidence level I display?
It certainly makes sense to track the hypothesis that I am overconfident here, but ironically it strikes me as overconfident to be asserting that I am being overconfident without first checking things like “Can I pass his ITT”/”Can I point to a flaw in his argument that makes him stutter if not change his mind”/etc.
To be clear, my view here is based on years of thinking about this kind of problem and practicing my proposed solutions with success, including in a literal martial arts gym for the last eight years. Perhaps I should have written more about these things on LW so my confidence doesn’t appear to come out of nowhere, but I do believe I am able to justify what I’m saying very well and won’t hesitate to do so if anyone wants further explanation or sees something which doesn’t seem to fit. And hey, if it turns out I’m wrong about how well supported my perspective is, I promise not to be a poor sport about it.
In absence of an object level counterargument, this is textbook ad hominem. I won’t argue that there isn’t a place for that (or that it’s impossible that my reasoning is flawed), but I think it’s hard to argue that it isn’t premature here. As a general rule, anyone that disagrees with anyone can come up with a million accusations of this sort, and it isn’t uncommon for some of it to be right to an extent, but it’s really hard to have a productive conversation if such accusations are used as a first resort rather than as a last resort. Especially when they aren’t well substantiated.
I see that you’ve deactivated your account now so it might be too late, but I want to point out explicitly that I actively want you to stick around and feel comfortable contributing here. I’m pushing back against some of the things you’re saying because I think that it’s important to do so, but I do not harbor any ill will towards you nor do I think what you said was “ridiculous”. I hope you come back.