I want to quickly flag that I think the default way for this conversation to go in it’s current public form isn’t very useful. I think giant meta discussions about culture can be good, but require some deliberate buy-in and expectation setting, that I haven’t seen here yet.
Zack and Duncan each have their own preferred ways of conducting these sorts of conversations (which are both different from my own preferred way), so I don’t know that my own advice would be useful to either of them. But my suggestion, if the conversation is to continue, is to first ask “how much do we both endorse having this conversation, what are we trying to achieve, and how much time/effort does it make sense to put into it?”. (i.e. have a mini kickstarter for “is this actually worth doing?”)
(It seemed to me that each comment-exchange in this thread, both from Duncan and Zack, introduced introduced more meta concepts that took the conversation for a simple object level dispute to a “what is the soul of ideal truthseeking culture.” I actually have some thoughts on the original exchange and how it probably could have been resolved without trying to tackle The Ultimate Meta, which I think is usually better practice, but I’m not sure that’d help anyone at this point)
I want to quickly flag that I think the default way for this conversation to go in it’s current public form isn’t very useful. I think giant meta discussions about culture can be good, but require some deliberate buy-in and expectation setting, that I haven’t seen here yet.
Zack and Duncan each have their own preferred ways of conducting these sorts of conversations (which are both different from my own preferred way), so I don’t know that my own advice would be useful to either of them. But my suggestion, if the conversation is to continue, is to first ask “how much do we both endorse having this conversation, what are we trying to achieve, and how much time/effort does it make sense to put into it?”. (i.e. have a mini kickstarter for “is this actually worth doing?”)
(It seemed to me that each comment-exchange in this thread, both from Duncan and Zack, introduced introduced more meta concepts that took the conversation for a simple object level dispute to a “what is the soul of ideal truthseeking culture.” I actually have some thoughts on the original exchange and how it probably could have been resolved without trying to tackle The Ultimate Meta, which I think is usually better practice, but I’m not sure that’d help anyone at this point)