I don’t think so. In this case it’s more: “Say what you consider to be right, regardles of what other people say.” Don’t tone down your message because it might annoy the establishment. Don’t focus on saying what’s popular.
By “a better way to put this” I was referring to the insight of the underlying strategic consideration; good advice rarely takes the form of “don’t take tactics into account, do what feels good.” If your supporters are the type to be fired up by anti-establishment talk, then fire up your supporters; if you would do better with supporters in the establishment, then don’t scare them away because you were harsher than you needed to be.
Compare “philosophers don’t have their act together, this is what it would look like if they did” with “we’re partnering with some professors to launch a MOOC on how to do philosophy from the LW perspective, starting with Pearl and Kahneman and focusing on how to dissolve questions.”
By “a better way to put this” I was referring to the insight of the underlying strategic consideration; good advice rarely takes the form of “don’t take tactics into account, do what feels good.” If your supporters are the type to be fired up by anti-establishment talk, then fire up your supporters; if you would do better with supporters in the establishment, then don’t scare them away because you were harsher than you needed to be.
Compare “philosophers don’t have their act together, this is what it would look like if they did” with “we’re partnering with some professors to launch a MOOC on how to do philosophy from the LW perspective, starting with Pearl and Kahneman and focusing on how to dissolve questions.”