I don’t agree with this take, though I do think there’s a common error that almost everyone makes, including LWers, and that’s ignoring base rates and over focusing on special, tailored explanations over general explanations, and this article seems to commit this error.
I do think that the verifiable facts are correct, but I don’t believe the framing is right.
Minimization and denial is appropriate when you’re being slandered.
I don’t agree with this take, though I do think there’s a common error that almost everyone makes, including LWers, and that’s ignoring base rates and over focusing on special, tailored explanations over general explanations, and this article seems to commit this error.
I do think that the verifiable facts are correct, but I don’t believe the framing is right.
I think the quoted text is inflammatory and “this forum” (this site) isn’t the same as wherever the alleged bad behavior took place.
Is contradicting something you believe to be, essentially, false equivalent to “denial”?