Somewhat unsurprisingly, claim 1 had the least support.
Admittedly, this is what shminux objected to. Beforehand I would have expected more resistance based on people already believing the future is uncertain, casting doubt on claim 2 and especially the “tractable” part of claim 3. If I had to steelman such views, they might sound something like, ‘The way to address this problem is to make sure sensible people are in charge, and a prerequisite for being sensible is not giving weird-sounding talks for 3 people.’
How sure are you that the people who showed up were objecting out of deeply-held disagreements, and not out of a sense that objections are good?
Admittedly, this is what shminux objected to. Beforehand I would have expected more resistance based on people already believing the future is uncertain, casting doubt on claim 2 and especially the “tractable” part of claim 3. If I had to steelman such views, they might sound something like, ‘The way to address this problem is to make sure sensible people are in charge, and a prerequisite for being sensible is not giving weird-sounding talks for 3 people.’
How sure are you that the people who showed up were objecting out of deeply-held disagreements, and not out of a sense that objections are good?
TBC, it’s an unconference, so it wasn’t really a talk (although I did end up talking a lot :P).
Seems like a false dichotomy. I’d say people were mostly disagreeing out of not-very-deeply-held-at-all disagreements :)