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.
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.