Alicorn didn’t actually propose solutions to the primary question: “What we should do in order to ensure that LWers discuss the problem thoroughly?” She proposed solutions to the sub question: “What mechanisms could cause people to propose solutions before discussing the problem?” I tend to view this process as a way of identifying the constraints on a problem before actually tackling the problem itself. If proposing constraints counts as something that we’re not allowed to do (until we establish the constraints on our constraints?), we wind up with an infinite recursion.
Alicorn didn’t actually propose solutions to the primary question: “What we should do in order to ensure that LWers discuss the problem thoroughly?” She proposed solutions to the sub question: “What mechanisms could cause people to propose solutions before discussing the problem?” I tend to view this process as a way of identifying the constraints on a problem before actually tackling the problem itself. If proposing constraints counts as something that we’re not allowed to do (until we establish the constraints on our constraints?), we wind up with an infinite recursion.