I think that it is unfortunate that she was put out into the public eye at such an early stage of her career, before she could fully understand what she was doing. [emphasis mine]
This is yet another example of a personal attack. Please refrain from making unsubstantiated claims belittling other people.
This is a reminder to me to write up an article that looks at what the norms actually should be for speculating about other people’s motivations.
(I think there is some sort of general “Be careful psychologizing people, especially when criticizing them” norm that’s sort of in the water, but I don’t know that I’ve seen it written up clearly. I currently endorse Duncan Sabien’s proposed norm of “if you’re going to do that, clearly label your cruxes for what would change your mind about their psychology”, but it’s a non-obvious norm IMO and took me a while to come around on.)
This is yet another example of a personal attack. Please refrain from making unsubstantiated claims belittling other people.
This is a reminder to me to write up an article that looks at what the norms actually should be for speculating about other people’s motivations.
(I think there is some sort of general “Be careful psychologizing people, especially when criticizing them” norm that’s sort of in the water, but I don’t know that I’ve seen it written up clearly. I currently endorse Duncan Sabien’s proposed norm of “if you’re going to do that, clearly label your cruxes for what would change your mind about their psychology”, but it’s a non-obvious norm IMO and took me a while to come around on.)