I have to say, that goes a bit beyond what I intended. But that part where I communicate the experience is really important. I wonder if there’s some way to make it a bit less darkish without losing the experiential communication?
It would be terribly dissapointing to see effective communication subordinated to efforts to avoid being labelled dark. The communication of experience serves as an effective reminder that we are reading not an infalible surce of wisdom, but just some guy who writes blog posts.
I’d really prefer people spent effort trying not to give me biassed information than spending that effort trying to persuade me that they aren’t dark.
To work on refining and verifying a theory, one first has to understand it, to be able to formulate theoretical conclusions given possible future data or arguments. While the validity of a theory in the current form isn’t certain, moving towards resolution of this uncertainty requires mastery of the theory, and it’s where the communication of experience comes in.
The direct analogy is with categorization: to measure the precision of a categorization technique, one first may need to implement the categorization algorithm. Resulting categories computed by the algorithm don’t claim to be the truth, they are merely labels with aspirations for predictive power.
I have to say, that goes a bit beyond what I intended. But that part where I communicate the experience is really important. I wonder if there’s some way to make it a bit less darkish without losing the experiential communication?
It may be time for a good Style vs Content Debate; first commenter to scream false dilemma gets a prize
It would be terribly dissapointing to see effective communication subordinated to efforts to avoid being labelled dark. The communication of experience serves as an effective reminder that we are reading not an infalible surce of wisdom, but just some guy who writes blog posts.
I’d really prefer people spent effort trying not to give me biassed information than spending that effort trying to persuade me that they aren’t dark.
To work on refining and verifying a theory, one first has to understand it, to be able to formulate theoretical conclusions given possible future data or arguments. While the validity of a theory in the current form isn’t certain, moving towards resolution of this uncertainty requires mastery of the theory, and it’s where the communication of experience comes in.
The direct analogy is with categorization: to measure the precision of a categorization technique, one first may need to implement the categorization algorithm. Resulting categories computed by the algorithm don’t claim to be the truth, they are merely labels with aspirations for predictive power.