I’m curating this post, because it lays out a useful framework that I expect people to be referring back to for awhile, when sorting out why arguments aren’t going anywhere productive.
The post gets some bonus points for being funny, loses some points for being long. (An issue the mods have chatted about a bit is how we actually generally want to incentivize people to write shorter stuff, except that some of our senior writers tend to write longer pieces, and have enough skill to get away with it. The naive outcome is that people tend to imitate the senior writers, resulting in a net tendency towards too-long)
I’m curating this post, because it lays out a useful framework that I expect people to be referring back to for awhile, when sorting out why arguments aren’t going anywhere productive.
The post gets some bonus points for being funny, loses some points for being long. (An issue the mods have chatted about a bit is how we actually generally want to incentivize people to write shorter stuff, except that some of our senior writers tend to write longer pieces, and have enough skill to get away with it. The naive outcome is that people tend to imitate the senior writers, resulting in a net tendency towards too-long)