If you ask yourself “how to respond” you might first ask yourself whether to respond at all and if so what your goals for responding happen to be.
In different context widely different responses might be in order. In different contexts the burden of proof is quite different. If your boss says X, he doesn’t have the burden of proof. If your subordinate says X, he has the burden of proof.
When it comes to discussion among rationalists those are often about attempting to convince another person. If your goal is to convince another person saying “provide evidence for X” is not helpful for convincing the other person. What’s necessary to convince the other person is often to provide evidence for !X.
For discussions that are about convincing other people it’s important that particpants provide what they beliefs independent on the extend towards which those beliefs can be supported by explicit evidence. That means it’s good to have social norms that don’t ban people from expressing those beliefs if you want to have discussions that aren’t just about people talk each other and nobody shifting what they believe.
If you ask yourself “how to respond” you might first ask yourself whether to respond at all and if so what your goals for responding happen to be.
In different context widely different responses might be in order. In different contexts the burden of proof is quite different. If your boss says X, he doesn’t have the burden of proof. If your subordinate says X, he has the burden of proof.
When it comes to discussion among rationalists those are often about attempting to convince another person. If your goal is to convince another person saying “provide evidence for X” is not helpful for convincing the other person. What’s necessary to convince the other person is often to provide evidence for !X.
For discussions that are about convincing other people it’s important that particpants provide what they beliefs independent on the extend towards which those beliefs can be supported by explicit evidence. That means it’s good to have social norms that don’t ban people from expressing those beliefs if you want to have discussions that aren’t just about people talk each other and nobody shifting what they believe.