Yes, I think this is partly what I’m looking at with the response to the posts. It seems that I underestimated LW’s tendency to notice this, and/or their general opposition to such approaches. (I’m unfortunately not that familiar with the online LW community, as I normally only read promoted posts without the comments.) It’s worth noting that a persuasive argument can also be a valid argument, and not all attempts to create beliefs in others are attempts to create false beliefs. But these attempts nonetheless look suspicious (for good reason) and while the upcoming posts have fewer such elements already, I’m going to go and clear some of them out.
Yes, I think this is partly what I’m looking at with the response to the posts. It seems that I underestimated LW’s tendency to notice this, and/or their general opposition to such approaches. (I’m unfortunately not that familiar with the online LW community, as I normally only read promoted posts without the comments.) It’s worth noting that a persuasive argument can also be a valid argument, and not all attempts to create beliefs in others are attempts to create false beliefs. But these attempts nonetheless look suspicious (for good reason) and while the upcoming posts have fewer such elements already, I’m going to go and clear some of them out.