No, Eliezer’s reply would not work, because it falsely asserts that any comment of a form which he claimed my comment fitted would be downvoted, when in fact there are comments that have that form which would and should not be downvoted, as I think we would all agree.
Shockwave’s answer wasn’t helpful; see my latest reply to him.
If you wish to get a different response from your comments then identify something that you can change such that the response is more desirable. Any explanations you are provided with may or may not be useful for you but they are provided as a courtesy not an obligation.
Any explanations you are provided with may or may not be useful for you but they are provided as a courtesy not an obligation
I never said Eliezer’s reply wasn’t “useful” to me; I just claimed it was premised on a false generalization. I appreciate his comments, as I appreciate those of every other person who took the time to discuss things with me, but having this appreciation is no reason for me to abstain from pointing out factual or reasoning errors as I see them. The fact that such comments are not provided as a an obligation is neither here nor there; all comments in this forum are, in the relevant sense, “courtesy”.
No, Eliezer’s reply would not work, because it falsely asserts that any comment of a form which he claimed my comment fitted would be downvoted, when in fact there are comments that have that form which would and should not be downvoted, as I think we would all agree.
Shockwave’s answer wasn’t helpful; see my latest reply to him.
If you wish to get a different response from your comments then identify something that you can change such that the response is more desirable. Any explanations you are provided with may or may not be useful for you but they are provided as a courtesy not an obligation.
I never said Eliezer’s reply wasn’t “useful” to me; I just claimed it was premised on a false generalization. I appreciate his comments, as I appreciate those of every other person who took the time to discuss things with me, but having this appreciation is no reason for me to abstain from pointing out factual or reasoning errors as I see them. The fact that such comments are not provided as a an obligation is neither here nor there; all comments in this forum are, in the relevant sense, “courtesy”.