In particular, the guidelines are very bad for productive babbling / brainstorming, for intuitive knowledge transfer, and other less rigorous ways of communicating that I find really valuable in some situations.
Strong disagree; like, strong enough that I will be blunter than usual and say “this is just false.” If you project a bunch of stuff onto the guidelines that isn’t actually there in the text, then yeah, but.
All of Julia Galef, Anna Salamon, Rob Bensinger, Scott Garrabrant, Vaniver, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Logan Brienne Strohl, Oliver Habryka, Kelsey Piper, Nate Soares, Eric Rogstad, Spencer Greenberg, and Dan Keys have engaged in productive babbling/brainstorming, intuitive knowledge transfer, and other less rigorous ways of communicating on the regular; the only difference is that they take three seconds to make clear that they’re shifting into that mode.
You didn’t address the part of my comment that I’m actually more confident about. I regret adding that last sentence, consider it retracted for now (I currently don’t think I’m wrong, but I’ll have to think/observe some more, and perhaps find better words/framing to pinpoint what bothers me about rationalist discourse).
I’m not sure what the suggestion, question, or request (in the part you’re more confident about) was. Could you nudge me a little more re: what kind of response you were hoping for?
It seems to me that you are attempting to write a timeless, prescriptive reference piece. Then a paragraph sneaks in that is heavily time and culture dependent.
I’m honestly not certain about the intended meaning. I think you intent mask wearing to be an example of a small and reasonable cost. As a non-american, I’m vaguely aware what costco is, but don’t know if there’s some connotation or reference to current events that I’m missing. And if I’m confused now, imagine someone reading this in 2030...
Without getting into the object-level discussion, I think such references have no place in the kind of post this is supposed to be, and should be cut or made more neutral.
Strong disagree; like, strong enough that I will be blunter than usual and say “this is just false.” If you project a bunch of stuff onto the guidelines that isn’t actually there in the text, then yeah, but.
All of Julia Galef, Anna Salamon, Rob Bensinger, Scott Garrabrant, Vaniver, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Logan Brienne Strohl, Oliver Habryka, Kelsey Piper, Nate Soares, Eric Rogstad, Spencer Greenberg, and Dan Keys have engaged in productive babbling/brainstorming, intuitive knowledge transfer, and other less rigorous ways of communicating on the regular; the only difference is that they take three seconds to make clear that they’re shifting into that mode.
You didn’t address the part of my comment that I’m actually more confident about. I regret adding that last sentence, consider it retracted for now (I currently don’t think I’m wrong, but I’ll have to think/observe some more, and perhaps find better words/framing to pinpoint what bothers me about rationalist discourse).
I’m not sure what the suggestion, question, or request (in the part you’re more confident about) was. Could you nudge me a little more re: what kind of response you were hoping for?
It seems to me that you are attempting to write a timeless, prescriptive reference piece. Then a paragraph sneaks in that is heavily time and culture dependent.
I’m honestly not certain about the intended meaning. I think you intent mask wearing to be an example of a small and reasonable cost. As a non-american, I’m vaguely aware what costco is, but don’t know if there’s some connotation or reference to current events that I’m missing. And if I’m confused now, imagine someone reading this in 2030...
Without getting into the object-level discussion, I think such references have no place in the kind of post this is supposed to be, and should be cut or made more neutral.
Compelling!