Now that I’ve cooled off a bit, let me state in detail my complaint against this comment of yours.
You seem to be asking for the highest amount of charity towards your statements. To the point that I ought strive for many long minutes to figure out a sense in which your words might be correct, even if I’d have to fix your claim (e.g. turn ‘statement’ into ‘proposition’—and add after ‘any proposition starts out’ the parenthetical ‘before it is actually stated in words’) before it actually becomes correct.
But in return you provide the least amount of charity towards my own statements: I kept using the word “seems” in my original response to you (thus showing it may just be a misunderstanding) and I did NOT use the word ‘ignoramus’ which you accuse me of claiming you to be—I used the term ‘Level-0 rationalist’. You may think it’s okay to paraphrase Lesswrong beliefs to show how they might appear to other people, but please don’t paraphrase me and then ask for an apology for the words you put in my mouth. That’s a major no-no. Don’t put words in my mouth, period.
No, I did not apologize for calling you a Level-0 rationalist; I still do not apologize for putting you in that category, since that’s where your badly chosen words properly assigned you (the vast majority of people who’d say something like “all statements begin with a 50% probability” would truly be Level-0), NOR do I apologize for stating I had placed you in that category: would you prefer if everyone here had just downvoted your article instead of giving you a chance to clarify that (seemingly) terribly wrong position first?
Your whole post was about how badly communicated beliefs confer us low status in the minds of others. It was only proper that I should tell you what a status you had achieved in my mind.
I don’t consider you a Level-0 rationalist anymore. But I consider you an extremely low-level communicator.
Now that I’ve cooled off a bit, let me state in detail my complaint against this comment of yours.
You seem to be asking for the highest amount of charity towards your statements. To the point that I ought strive for many long minutes to figure out a sense in which your words might be correct, even if I’d have to fix your claim (e.g. turn ‘statement’ into ‘proposition’—and add after ‘any proposition starts out’ the parenthetical ‘before it is actually stated in words’) before it actually becomes correct.
But in return you provide the least amount of charity towards my own statements: I kept using the word “seems” in my original response to you (thus showing it may just be a misunderstanding) and I did NOT use the word ‘ignoramus’ which you accuse me of claiming you to be—I used the term ‘Level-0 rationalist’. You may think it’s okay to paraphrase Lesswrong beliefs to show how they might appear to other people, but please don’t paraphrase me and then ask for an apology for the words you put in my mouth. That’s a major no-no. Don’t put words in my mouth, period.
No, I did not apologize for calling you a Level-0 rationalist; I still do not apologize for putting you in that category, since that’s where your badly chosen words properly assigned you (the vast majority of people who’d say something like “all statements begin with a 50% probability” would truly be Level-0), NOR do I apologize for stating I had placed you in that category: would you prefer if everyone here had just downvoted your article instead of giving you a chance to clarify that (seemingly) terribly wrong position first?
Your whole post was about how badly communicated beliefs confer us low status in the minds of others. It was only proper that I should tell you what a status you had achieved in my mind.
I don’t consider you a Level-0 rationalist anymore. But I consider you an extremely low-level communicator.