Dude, chill. We don’t define and quantify everything we say because that’s massively impractical. But if you insist, we can do that.
Let’s start with your post. I want you to take your argument against censorship and formalize it mathematically. If you do that, it’ll be clear if your argument is logically sound. If it turns out that it is logically sound, we can get to empirically verifying the assumptions of your model.
How does the scientific method sound to you?
If you find this difficult for whatever reason, perhaps there are things about formal reasoning you don’t know. Go read a math book, or a philosophy book, or even the sequences.
Finally, let me just point out that if your goal was to have a productive conversation you’re clearly not doing so well. Around here, we define rationality to be what lets us achieve our goals (more or less). By that standard, your chosen tactics aren’t very rational.
Dude, chill. We don’t define and quantify everything we say because that’s massively impractical. But if you insist, we can do that.
Let’s start with your post. I want you to take your argument against censorship and formalize it mathematically. If you do that, it’ll be clear if your argument is logically sound. If it turns out that it is logically sound, we can get to empirically verifying the assumptions of your model.
How does the scientific method sound to you?
If you find this difficult for whatever reason, perhaps there are things about formal reasoning you don’t know. Go read a math book, or a philosophy book, or even the sequences.
Finally, let me just point out that if your goal was to have a productive conversation you’re clearly not doing so well. Around here, we define rationality to be what lets us achieve our goals (more or less). By that standard, your chosen tactics aren’t very rational.