if u can’t even tell if there are coherent ideas present, downvoting is socioepistemologically bad. imagine universalising this reaction across the website, and ask urself what happens to the ideas that are so novel that they don’t neatly fit into existing explanatory paradigms.
imo, u shud only downvote stuff u think is bad after u understand them. socially disincentivising illegible stuff seems quite bad in general.
if otoh u downvote bc it seems to neglect existing work in related fields, see the underappreciated value of original thinking below the frontier. we don’t want to disincentivise ppl from reinventing stuff. if they came up w schmobability theory on their own, i’d encourage them to expand on it, rather than risk collapsing the seed by making them learn abt Bayes.
if u can’t even tell if there are coherent ideas present, downvoting is socioepistemologically bad. imagine universalising this reaction across the website, and ask urself what happens to the ideas that are so novel that they don’t neatly fit into existing explanatory paradigms.
imo, u shud only downvote stuff u think is bad after u understand them. socially disincentivising illegible stuff seems quite bad in general.
if otoh u downvote bc it seems to neglect existing work in related fields, see the underappreciated value of original thinking below the frontier. we don’t want to disincentivise ppl from reinventing stuff. if they came up w schmobability theory on their own, i’d encourage them to expand on it, rather than risk collapsing the seed by making them learn abt Bayes.