Edit: I’ve self-downvoted now that this thread pretty much reached it’s conclusion (or at least, I don’t think it makes sense to continue it further)
Nitpick:
Now, we point out that even if the new bundle is strictly better there is still a problem, because it being more better for other people means the price goes up more than the value proposition improves.
Doesn’t strictly better include price? I did a doubletake on this paragraph and had to process that you meant “strictly better apart from price.”
Additional nitpick/minor-grump about use-of-epistemic-status-as-weird-poetry-thing.
When writing here, I thought it was clear that price wasn’t included, but clearly that’s not true. Adding the words ‘of goods’ to the sentence to make things more clear. If other people chime in that it’s still not clear I will reword more.
On Epistemic Status: On reflection I like the weird poetry angle, and I think it’s true to the concept, as it’s telling the viewer in what vein to take what is to come. If I had consistent feedback that people dislike it or it was doing real damage to an important norm, I would stop, but as usual feedback on such things is very sparse.
There was some discussion about epistemic status as a norm here. Sample size of, like, 2-3. My own take is that this class of epistemic status would be fine if it were rare, but when it’s one of three epistemic statuses, it makes it hard to really grok what epistemic-status-as-a-norm is even doing. (see Magic the Gathering where complicated things are fine as long as they’re not at common)
I can believe a model where there’s a budget for some amount of weird ES, and there’s a potential tragedy of the commons if that budget is overused where it then becomes something different and less useful, and also a similar thing within a given blog/writer since it’s clear that DWATV ESs aren’t going to usually be ‘confident’, ‘uncertain’ or what not.
One possibility, given that ES isn’t used that much right now (e.g. I looked at all other front page LW posts on ‘all posts’ plus the 3 curated, and there were no other ESs), is I accept that I’m doing a different thing and call it ‘vibe’ or something.
Edit: I’ve self-downvoted now that this thread pretty much reached it’s conclusion (or at least, I don’t think it makes sense to continue it further)
Nitpick:
Doesn’t strictly better include price? I did a doubletake on this paragraph and had to process that you meant “strictly better apart from price.”
Additional nitpick/minor-grump about use-of-epistemic-status-as-weird-poetry-thing.
When writing here, I thought it was clear that price wasn’t included, but clearly that’s not true. Adding the words ‘of goods’ to the sentence to make things more clear. If other people chime in that it’s still not clear I will reword more.
On Epistemic Status: On reflection I like the weird poetry angle, and I think it’s true to the concept, as it’s telling the viewer in what vein to take what is to come. If I had consistent feedback that people dislike it or it was doing real damage to an important norm, I would stop, but as usual feedback on such things is very sparse.
There was some discussion about epistemic status as a norm here. Sample size of, like, 2-3. My own take is that this class of epistemic status would be fine if it were rare, but when it’s one of three epistemic statuses, it makes it hard to really grok what epistemic-status-as-a-norm is even doing. (see Magic the Gathering where complicated things are fine as long as they’re not at common)
I can believe a model where there’s a budget for some amount of weird ES, and there’s a potential tragedy of the commons if that budget is overused where it then becomes something different and less useful, and also a similar thing within a given blog/writer since it’s clear that DWATV ESs aren’t going to usually be ‘confident’, ‘uncertain’ or what not.
One possibility, given that ES isn’t used that much right now (e.g. I looked at all other front page LW posts on ‘all posts’ plus the 3 curated, and there were no other ESs), is I accept that I’m doing a different thing and call it ‘vibe’ or something.
Something like that makes sense to me.