Disagree. The straightforward reading of this is that claims of harm that route through sharing of true information will nearly-always be very small compared to the harms that route through people being less informed. Framed this way, it’s easy to see that, for example, the argument doesnt apply to things like dangerous medical experiments, because those would have costs that aren’t based in talk.
I agree that “claims of harm that route through sharing of true information will nearly-always be very small compared to the harms that route through people being less informed”, I just don’t see it as a straightforward reading of the paragraph I was commenting on. But arguing over the exegesis of a blog post is probably a waste of time if we agree at the object level.
Disagree. The straightforward reading of this is that claims of harm that route through sharing of true information will nearly-always be very small compared to the harms that route through people being less informed. Framed this way, it’s easy to see that, for example, the argument doesnt apply to things like dangerous medical experiments, because those would have costs that aren’t based in talk.
I agree that “claims of harm that route through sharing of true information will nearly-always be very small compared to the harms that route through people being less informed”, I just don’t see it as a straightforward reading of the paragraph I was commenting on. But arguing over the exegesis of a blog post is probably a waste of time if we agree at the object level.