I apologize if I’ve been unfair to you, Tiiba. I was just trying to point out that I was giving parables for the same reason that you said, correctly and validly, “studies show that we use only 10% of our brains”, as an example, instead of actually spending an hour looking it up on Google. I’m not sure how else I might have offended you.
I would never write a blog post that I thought was “under-researched bullshit”. All my non-parable examples are drawn from things that I remember people saying to me, even though I don’t have enough time to look them all up. My parables are clearly labeled as parables.
I’m not trying to offend anyone, but so long as I’m being honest to the best of my ability, I really don’t see what moral duty I’ve failed in. These are free blog posts. You didn’t pay for them and I didn’t promise them. If you think it’s possible to do better, write your own blog posts! I mean that very sincerely, and I would be honored to have started anyone down that pathway.
Understand, I’m perfectly happy to entertain criticisms of the form, “There’s an actual flaw in your logic, point X”, but not criticisms of the form, “You could have written a better post if you were willing to spend an hour doing Y.” I only have so many hours. Write your own blog post and spend your own hour doing Y. (Here, Y is “using researched real-world examples instead of abstract parables to make the same valid point”.)
Now I’ve got to get back to preparing my talk for the Singularity Summit. Ciao.
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I apologize if I’ve been unfair to you, Tiiba. I was just trying to point out that I was giving parables for the same reason that you said, correctly and validly, “studies show that we use only 10% of our brains”, as an example, instead of actually spending an hour looking it up on Google. I’m not sure how else I might have offended you.
I would never write a blog post that I thought was “under-researched bullshit”. All my non-parable examples are drawn from things that I remember people saying to me, even though I don’t have enough time to look them all up. My parables are clearly labeled as parables.
I’m not trying to offend anyone, but so long as I’m being honest to the best of my ability, I really don’t see what moral duty I’ve failed in. These are free blog posts. You didn’t pay for them and I didn’t promise them. If you think it’s possible to do better, write your own blog posts! I mean that very sincerely, and I would be honored to have started anyone down that pathway.
Understand, I’m perfectly happy to entertain criticisms of the form, “There’s an actual flaw in your logic, point X”, but not criticisms of the form, “You could have written a better post if you were willing to spend an hour doing Y.” I only have so many hours. Write your own blog post and spend your own hour doing Y. (Here, Y is “using researched real-world examples instead of abstract parables to make the same valid point”.)
Now I’ve got to get back to preparing my talk for the Singularity Summit. Ciao.