I like this post. It’s very balanced: it would be dunking if and only if there was real dunking to do. I was initially on guard, but in my ideal community of humans, this sort of harshness would be seen as friendly throwing down of the guantlet on occasion. and after all, there have in fact been significant predictions made and succeeded at.
I meaningfully predicted from seeing just the title that this post would be a lazy low-effort post by a recently-registered account mostly looking to dunk on people—and behold, that prediction has since been proven accurate by me clicking through to read it! The outcome was this comment.
Your comment was a lot dunkier than the OP. (Sarcastic, ad hominem, derisive/dismissive)
It’s possible that LetUsTalk meant to dunk on people, but their language wasn’t particularly adversarial, and I find it plausible that their question was meant in good faith.
This is supposed to be a community about rationality. Checking whether we’re succeeding at the goal, by seeing if we’re making accurate predictions, seems like a pretty reasonable thing to do.
It frustrates me that people like Scott Alexander have written so many good posts about tribalism, yet people here are still falling into basic traps.
I like this post. It’s very balanced: it would be dunking if and only if there was real dunking to do. I was initially on guard, but in my ideal community of humans, this sort of harshness would be seen as friendly throwing down of the guantlet on occasion. and after all, there have in fact been significant predictions made and succeeded at.
I meaningfully predicted from seeing just the title that this post would be a lazy low-effort post by a recently-registered account mostly looking to dunk on people—and behold, that prediction has since been proven accurate by me clicking through to read it! The outcome was this comment.
Your comment was a lot dunkier than the OP. (Sarcastic, ad hominem, derisive/dismissive)
It’s possible that LetUsTalk meant to dunk on people, but their language wasn’t particularly adversarial, and I find it plausible that their question was meant in good faith.
This is supposed to be a community about rationality. Checking whether we’re succeeding at the goal, by seeing if we’re making accurate predictions, seems like a pretty reasonable thing to do.
It frustrates me that people like Scott Alexander have written so many good posts about tribalism, yet people here are still falling into basic traps.