I find it deeply sad that many of us feel the need to frequently link to this article—I don’t think I have ever done so, because if I need to explain local validity, then perhaps I’m talking to the wrong people? But certainly the ignoring of this principle has gotten more and more blatant and common over time since this post, so it’s becoming less reasonable to assume that people understand such things. Which is super scary.
I’m actually somewhat rolling to disbelieve on how frequently people link to the article (I guess because of my own experience which I’m now typical minding).
I haven’t personally linked to this because someone was failing at local validity. What I’ve done is refer to this article while (attempting to) work towards a deeper, comprehensive culture that takes it seriously. What I found valuable about this was not “here’s a thing that previously we didn’t know and now we know it”, it’s “we were all sort of acting upon this belief, but not in a coordinated fashion. Now we have a good reference and common knowledge of it, which enables us to build off of it.”
I find it deeply sad that many of us feel the need to frequently link to this article—I don’t think I have ever done so, because if I need to explain local validity, then perhaps I’m talking to the wrong people? But certainly the ignoring of this principle has gotten more and more blatant and common over time since this post, so it’s becoming less reasonable to assume that people understand such things. Which is super scary.
I’m actually somewhat rolling to disbelieve on how frequently people link to the article (I guess because of my own experience which I’m now typical minding).
I haven’t personally linked to this because someone was failing at local validity. What I’ve done is refer to this article while (attempting to) work towards a deeper, comprehensive culture that takes it seriously. What I found valuable about this was not “here’s a thing that previously we didn’t know and now we know it”, it’s “we were all sort of acting upon this belief, but not in a coordinated fashion. Now we have a good reference and common knowledge of it, which enables us to build off of it.”