I think the Duty of an individual trying to not-undermine-rationality is to say “the following is poetry, because poetry is all I have; sorry; seems substantially better than nothing” at the start or the end of the poem
I just went to grab the link to Logan’s comment on the piranhas to note that in that context, I think including such a disclaimer would make the comment worse. I was sad to find that (I think?) they had edited it to have a disclaimer.
(there are other contexts where I think such a disclaimer is appropriate for logan-poetry-on-LW)
Huh, I guess I misremembered (glad I hedged there). If it was there originally I didn’t notice it which is perhaps evidence that it didn’t, in fact, make the comment noticeably worse.
Yeah, on second thought, please take that as the spirit of a recommendation and not the letter; the main threat vector I see is causing people confusion about what constitutes rigor or precision or a literal claim. I agree that there are a lot of cases where “this is not a literal claim” is pretty obvious on the surface to all-but-Lizardman-constant of the audience, and in those cases do not think a sign saying HERE COMES A POEM is always or even often indicated.
I just went to grab the link to Logan’s comment on the piranhas to note that in that context, I think including such a disclaimer would make the comment worse. I was sad to find that (I think?) they had edited it to have a disclaimer.
(there are other contexts where I think such a disclaimer is appropriate for logan-poetry-on-LW)
>I was sad to find that (I think?) they had edited it to have a disclaimer.
(Actually it originally had that disclaimer, or else I probably wouldn’t have posted it.)
Huh, I guess I misremembered (glad I hedged there). If it was there originally I didn’t notice it which is perhaps evidence that it didn’t, in fact, make the comment noticeably worse.
Yeah, on second thought, please take that as the spirit of a recommendation and not the letter; the main threat vector I see is causing people confusion about what constitutes rigor or precision or a literal claim. I agree that there are a lot of cases where “this is not a literal claim” is pretty obvious on the surface to all-but-Lizardman-constant of the audience, and in those cases do not think a sign saying HERE COMES A POEM is always or even often indicated.