“If we accept fewer ideas / hold them much more provisionally, but provide a clear path to having an idea be widely held as true, that creates an incentive for people to try & jump through hoops—and this incentive is a positive one, not a punishment-driven browbeating incentive.”
Hmm, it sounds like we agree on the solution but are emphasising different parts of it. For me, the question is: who’s this “we” that should accept fewer ideas? It’s the set of people who agree with my argument that you shouldn’t believe things which haven’t been fleshed out very much. But the easiest way to add people to that set is just to make the argument, which is what I’ve done. Specifically, note that I’m not criticising anyone for producing posts that are short and speculative: I’m criticising the people who update too much on those posts.
Fair enough. I’m reminded of a time someone summarized one of my posts as being a definitive argument against some idea X and me thinking to myself “even I don’t think my post definitively settles this issue” haha.
“If we accept fewer ideas / hold them much more provisionally, but provide a clear path to having an idea be widely held as true, that creates an incentive for people to try & jump through hoops—and this incentive is a positive one, not a punishment-driven browbeating incentive.”
Hmm, it sounds like we agree on the solution but are emphasising different parts of it. For me, the question is: who’s this “we” that should accept fewer ideas? It’s the set of people who agree with my argument that you shouldn’t believe things which haven’t been fleshed out very much. But the easiest way to add people to that set is just to make the argument, which is what I’ve done. Specifically, note that I’m not criticising anyone for producing posts that are short and speculative: I’m criticising the people who update too much on those posts.
Fair enough. I’m reminded of a time someone summarized one of my posts as being a definitive argument against some idea X and me thinking to myself “even I don’t think my post definitively settles this issue” haha.