I think Benquo has often mixed the third thing in with the first thing (and sort of skipped over the second thing?), which I consider actively harmful to the epistemic health of the discourse.
Question: do you mean this as a strictly denotative claim (Benquo is, as a matter of objective fact, mixing the things, which is, as a matter of fact, actively harmful to the discourse, with no blame whatsoever implied), or are you accusing Benquo of wrongdoing?
I think* (*but this is not a domain where I fully trust my introspection, or can credibly claim off-the-cuff that I’ve been consistently principled), that my intent is to criticize Benquo for following bad strategy according to his own principles (and mine), in a way that I consider blameworthy, but not norm-violation style blameworthiness. i.e. there is no staghunt to coordinate against this, so de-facto we’re not coordinating against this.
I definitely hadn’t thought concretely about the question until just now (I hadn’t had the “norm violations != criticism” crisply spelled out until a couple weeks ago). And so I assume that, by default, I have not necessarily been attending to this principle consistently over the past couple years of debate.
Question: do you mean this as a strictly denotative claim (Benquo is, as a matter of objective fact, mixing the things, which is, as a matter of fact, actively harmful to the discourse, with no blame whatsoever implied), or are you accusing Benquo of wrongdoing?
I think* (*but this is not a domain where I fully trust my introspection, or can credibly claim off-the-cuff that I’ve been consistently principled), that my intent is to criticize Benquo for following bad strategy according to his own principles (and mine), in a way that I consider blameworthy, but not norm-violation style blameworthiness. i.e. there is no staghunt to coordinate against this, so de-facto we’re not coordinating against this.
I definitely hadn’t thought concretely about the question until just now (I hadn’t had the “norm violations != criticism” crisply spelled out until a couple weeks ago). And so I assume that, by default, I have not necessarily been attending to this principle consistently over the past couple years of debate.