I think I don’t endorse my final paragraph as written – among other things it doesn’t mention value to third-parties reading along.
I also very much don’t think it should be obvious to Dagon that my claims here are true, if he started reading Zvi a few days ago – just that if you’ve been reading Zvi for years it’s clear that he gets the class of trade-based-thinking that Dagon is pointing to here. I may have picked a bad comment to make this sort of reply – as standalone comment Dagon’s most recent remarks seem pretty fine at trying to clarify his position and tease out what exactly Zvi is talking about, and I don’t think my reply is worded fairly.
(In my defense, I said I’d probably not do a good job) [Does that count as a defense? :P)
But here’s an attempt to reword my final paragraph:
It seems like the default course this conversation will take would be exploring all the different ways trade could resolve a given problem, but I’m pretty confident that the interesting disagreements here aren’t about trade, so much as about other factors outside of the trade lens (I think mostly relating to human psychology, although I’m not sure)
So while one could continue having the long, extensive conversation of doublechecking that Zvi does in fact understand all the reasons that trade is a good and versatile lens, my comment was geared towards skipping past all that to get to the substantial, interesting disagreement at the end.
I think I don’t endorse my final paragraph as written – among other things it doesn’t mention value to third-parties reading along.
I also very much don’t think it should be obvious to Dagon that my claims here are true, if he started reading Zvi a few days ago – just that if you’ve been reading Zvi for years it’s clear that he gets the class of trade-based-thinking that Dagon is pointing to here. I may have picked a bad comment to make this sort of reply – as standalone comment Dagon’s most recent remarks seem pretty fine at trying to clarify his position and tease out what exactly Zvi is talking about, and I don’t think my reply is worded fairly.
(In my defense, I said I’d probably not do a good job) [Does that count as a defense? :P)
But here’s an attempt to reword my final paragraph:
It seems like the default course this conversation will take would be exploring all the different ways trade could resolve a given problem, but I’m pretty confident that the interesting disagreements here aren’t about trade, so much as about other factors outside of the trade lens (I think mostly relating to human psychology, although I’m not sure)
So while one could continue having the long, extensive conversation of doublechecking that Zvi does in fact understand all the reasons that trade is a good and versatile lens, my comment was geared towards skipping past all that to get to the substantial, interesting disagreement at the end.