Sharing true information, or doing anything at all, will cause people to update.
Some of those updates will cause some probabilities to become less accurate.
Is it therefore my responsibility to prevent this, before I am permitted to share true information? Before I do anything? Am I responsible in an Asymmetric Justice fashion for every probability estimate change and status evaluation delta in people’s heads? Have I become entwined with your status, via the Copenhagen Interpretation, and am now responsible for it? What does anything even have to do with anything?
Should I have to worry about how my information telling you about Bayesian probability impacts the price of tea in China?
Why should the burden be on me to explain should here, anyway? I’m not claiming a duty, I’m claiming a negative, a lack of duty—I’m saying I do not, by sharing information, thereby take on the burden of preventing all negative consequences of that information to individuals in the form of others making Bayesian updates, to the extent of having to prevent them.
Whether or not I appreciate their efforts, or wish them higher or lower status! Even if I do wish them higher status, it should not be my priority in the conversation to worry about that.
Thus, if you think that I should be responsible, then I would turn the question around, and ask you what normative/meta-ethical framework you are invoking. Because the burden here seems not to be on me, unless you think that the primary thing we do when we communicate is we raise and lower the status of people. In which case, I have better ways of doing that than being here at LW and so do you!
(3) (Splitting for threading)
Sharing true information, or doing anything at all, will cause people to update.
Some of those updates will cause some probabilities to become less accurate.
Is it therefore my responsibility to prevent this, before I am permitted to share true information? Before I do anything? Am I responsible in an Asymmetric Justice fashion for every probability estimate change and status evaluation delta in people’s heads? Have I become entwined with your status, via the Copenhagen Interpretation, and am now responsible for it? What does anything even have to do with anything?
Should I have to worry about how my information telling you about Bayesian probability impacts the price of tea in China?
Why should the burden be on me to explain should here, anyway? I’m not claiming a duty, I’m claiming a negative, a lack of duty—I’m saying I do not, by sharing information, thereby take on the burden of preventing all negative consequences of that information to individuals in the form of others making Bayesian updates, to the extent of having to prevent them.
Whether or not I appreciate their efforts, or wish them higher or lower status! Even if I do wish them higher status, it should not be my priority in the conversation to worry about that.
Thus, if you think that I should be responsible, then I would turn the question around, and ask you what normative/meta-ethical framework you are invoking. Because the burden here seems not to be on me, unless you think that the primary thing we do when we communicate is we raise and lower the status of people. In which case, I have better ways of doing that than being here at LW and so do you!