I found this post persuasive, and only noticed after the fact that I wasn’t clear on exactly what it had persuaded me of.
I want to affirm that this to me seems like it should be alarming to you. To me a big part of rationality is about being resilient to this phenomenon and a big part of successful rationality norms is banning the tools for producing this phenomenon.
The alarm is a bit tempered by the fact that this doesn’t seem to be a majority view, but “40% of readers” would be deeply problematic and “10% of readers” would still probably indicate some obvious low-hanging fruit for fixing a real issue.
Looking at the votes, I don’t think it’s as low as 4% of readers, which is near my threshold for “no matter what you do, there’ll be a swath this large with some kind of problem.”
I want to affirm that this to me seems like it should be alarming to you. To me a big part of rationality is about being resilient to this phenomenon and a big part of successful rationality norms is banning the tools for producing this phenomenon.
It is indeed a concern.
The alarm is a bit tempered by the fact that this doesn’t seem to be a majority view, but “40% of readers” would be deeply problematic and “10% of readers” would still probably indicate some obvious low-hanging fruit for fixing a real issue.
Looking at the votes, I don’t think it’s as low as 4% of readers, which is near my threshold for “no matter what you do, there’ll be a swath this large with some kind of problem.”