Hmm. I’d frame it more as “be aware of the cost of doing so” than “don’t do it.” My takeaway is more like “if you expect the piece you are writing to be controversial, it’s probably better to put it in a place where people who are the right inferential steps away will run into it.”
(On FB, this would mean maybe filtering it to particular friend groups. On LW2.0, it might mean making it a personal blog or feed post until it’s been through a round of comments to iron out the kinks)
Bear in mind there’s a whole different set of concerns like “value of you having the opportunity to improve as a writer” and “value of one set of people learning from the ideas even if another set of people get innoculated against them.” It does involve judgment calls, though.
Hmm. I’d frame it more as “be aware of the cost of doing so” than “don’t do it.” My takeaway is more like “if you expect the piece you are writing to be controversial, it’s probably better to put it in a place where people who are the right inferential steps away will run into it.”
(On FB, this would mean maybe filtering it to particular friend groups. On LW2.0, it might mean making it a personal blog or feed post until it’s been through a round of comments to iron out the kinks)
Bear in mind there’s a whole different set of concerns like “value of you having the opportunity to improve as a writer” and “value of one set of people learning from the ideas even if another set of people get innoculated against them.” It does involve judgment calls, though.