At the time, I argued pretty strongly against parts of this post, and I still think my points are valid and important. That said, I think in retrospect this post had a large impact; I think it kicked off several months of investigation of how language works and what discourse norms should be in the presence of consequences. I’m not sure it was the best of 2019, but it seems necessary to make sense of 2019, or properly trace the lineage of ideas?
At the time, I argued pretty strongly against parts of this post, and I still think my points are valid and important. That said, I think in retrospect this post had a large impact; I think it kicked off several months of investigation of how language works and what discourse norms should be in the presence of consequences. I’m not sure it was the best of 2019, but it seems necessary to make sense of 2019, or properly trace the lineage of ideas?