… so, in other words, you’re not actually talking about the scenario described in the OP. But that’s what my comments have been about, so… everything you said has been a non sequitur…?
See my top-level comment, this is precisely the problem with the scenario descibed in the OP I pointed out. Your reading is standard, but not the intended meaning.
But it’s also puzzling that you can’t ITT this point, to see both meanings, even if you disagree that it’s reasonable to allow/expect the intended one. Perhaps divesting from having an opinion on the object level question might help? Like, what is the point the others are trying to make, specifically, how does it work, regardless of if it’s a wrong point, described in a way that makes no reference to its wrongness/absurdity?
Like with bug reports, it’s not helpful to say that something “doesn’t work at all”, it’s useful to be more specific. There’s some failure of rationality at play here, you are way too intelligent to be incapable of seeing what the point is, so there is some systematic avoidance of allowing yourself to see what is going on. Heighn’s antagonistic dogmatism doesn’t help, but shouldn’t be this debilitating.
As far as your top-level comment, well, my follow-up questions about it remain unanswered…
I dropped out of that conversation because it seemed to be going in circles, and I think I’ve explained everything already. Apparently the conversation continued, green_leaf seems to be making good points, and Heighn continues needlessly upping the heat.
I don’t think object level conversation is helpful at this point, there is some methodological issue in how you think about this that I don’t see an efficient approach to. I’m already way outside the sort of conversational norms I’m trying to follow for the last few years, which is probably making this comment as hopelessly unhelpful as ever, though in 2010 that’d more likely be the default mode of response for me.
Note that it’s my argumentation that’s being called crazy, which is a large factor in the “antagonism” you seem to observe—a word choice I don’t agree with, btw.
About the “needlessly upping the heat”, I’ve tried this discussion from multiple different angles, seeing if we can come to a resolution. So far, no, alas, but not for lack of trying. I will admit some of my reactions were short and a bit provocative, but I don’t appreciate nor agree with your accusations. I have been honest in my reactions.
I’ve been you ten years ago. This doesn’t help, courtesy or honesty (purposes that tend to be at odds with each other) aren’t always sufficient, it’s also necessary to entertain strange points of view that are obviously wrong, in order to talk in another’s language, to de-escalate where escalation won’t help (it might help with feeding norms, but knowing what norms you are feeding is important). And often enough that is still useless and the best thing is to give up. Or at least more decisively overturn the chess board, as I’m doing with some of the last few comments to this post, to avoid remaining in an interminable failure mode.
These norms are interesting in how well they fade into the background, oppose being examined. If you happen to be a programmer or have enough impression of what that might be like, just imagine a programmer team where talking about bugs can be taboo in some circumstances, especially if they are hypothetical bugs imagined out of whole cloth to check if they happen to be there, or brought to attention to see if it’s cheap to put measures in place to prevent their going unnoticed, even if it eventually turns out that they were never there to begin with in actuality. With rationality, that’s hypotheses about how people think, including hypotheses about norms that oppose examination of such hypotheses and norms.
Sorry, I’m having trouble understanding your point here. I understand your analogy (I was a developer), but am not sure what you’re drawing the analogy to.
I see your point, although I have entertained Said’s view as well. But yes, I could have done better. I tend to get like this when my argumentation is being called crazy, and I should have done better.
You could have just told me this instead of complaining about me to Said though.
See my top-level comment, this is precisely the problem with the scenario descibed in the OP I pointed out. Your reading is standard, but not the intended meaning.
But it’s also puzzling that you can’t ITT this point, to see both meanings, even if you disagree that it’s reasonable to allow/expect the intended one. Perhaps divesting from having an opinion on the object level question might help? Like, what is the point the others are trying to make, specifically, how does it work, regardless of if it’s a wrong point, described in a way that makes no reference to its wrongness/absurdity?
If a point seems to me to be absurd, then how can I understand or explain how it works (given that I don’t think it works at all)?
As far as your top-level comment, well, my follow-up questions about it remain unanswered…
Like with bug reports, it’s not helpful to say that something “doesn’t work at all”, it’s useful to be more specific. There’s some failure of rationality at play here, you are way too intelligent to be incapable of seeing what the point is, so there is some systematic avoidance of allowing yourself to see what is going on. Heighn’s antagonistic dogmatism doesn’t help, but shouldn’t be this debilitating.
I dropped out of that conversation because it seemed to be going in circles, and I think I’ve explained everything already. Apparently the conversation continued, green_leaf seems to be making good points, and Heighn continues needlessly upping the heat.
I don’t think object level conversation is helpful at this point, there is some methodological issue in how you think about this that I don’t see an efficient approach to. I’m already way outside the sort of conversational norms I’m trying to follow for the last few years, which is probably making this comment as hopelessly unhelpful as ever, though in 2010 that’d more likely be the default mode of response for me.
Note that it’s my argumentation that’s being called crazy, which is a large factor in the “antagonism” you seem to observe—a word choice I don’t agree with, btw.
About the “needlessly upping the heat”, I’ve tried this discussion from multiple different angles, seeing if we can come to a resolution. So far, no, alas, but not for lack of trying. I will admit some of my reactions were short and a bit provocative, but I don’t appreciate nor agree with your accusations. I have been honest in my reactions.
I’ve been you ten years ago. This doesn’t help, courtesy or honesty (purposes that tend to be at odds with each other) aren’t always sufficient, it’s also necessary to entertain strange points of view that are obviously wrong, in order to talk in another’s language, to de-escalate where escalation won’t help (it might help with feeding norms, but knowing what norms you are feeding is important). And often enough that is still useless and the best thing is to give up. Or at least more decisively overturn the chess board, as I’m doing with some of the last few comments to this post, to avoid remaining in an interminable failure mode.
Just… no. Don’t act like you know me, because you don’t. I appreciate you trying to help, but this isn’t the way.
These norms are interesting in how well they fade into the background, oppose being examined. If you happen to be a programmer or have enough impression of what that might be like, just imagine a programmer team where talking about bugs can be taboo in some circumstances, especially if they are hypothetical bugs imagined out of whole cloth to check if they happen to be there, or brought to attention to see if it’s cheap to put measures in place to prevent their going unnoticed, even if it eventually turns out that they were never there to begin with in actuality. With rationality, that’s hypotheses about how people think, including hypotheses about norms that oppose examination of such hypotheses and norms.
Sorry, I’m having trouble understanding your point here. I understand your analogy (I was a developer), but am not sure what you’re drawing the analogy to.
I see your point, although I have entertained Said’s view as well. But yes, I could have done better. I tend to get like this when my argumentation is being called crazy, and I should have done better.
You could have just told me this instead of complaining about me to Said though.