Re “less talking”, yeah. One thing that particularly disappointed me was when I proposed starting up a Jaynes study group and got pretty much zero uptake. More disappointed even when people cited “too hard” as the reason.
Good points about technical meaning. I guess it’s not really people respecting the exact framework from Janis that I’d like, so much as saying things which are more interesting than “you guys are biased”. It’s just too easy to troll that way.
I’m not saying “no one should be able to charge groupthink”. I’m hoping that the discussion below this post will encourage and help newcomers (or even regulars) to make clearer and more pointed diagnoses of the pathologies of this community. Just saying “Robin and Eliezer have really biased the crowd on this one”, and particularly in the context of a discussion which was devoted to close critical examination of “this one”, is providing no value.
I’m a relative newcomer, so not really motivated by the celebrity status from OB. I want to encourage discourse that provides value and discourage that which does not. I am so motivated not out of righteousness, but for purely selfish motives: I have learned a lot from this site already (Bayes, Jaynes, MWI, a bunch of smaller conceptual tools from Eliezer’s OB writings) and I want more of that good stuff. Positive ROI is what this is about.
Re “less talking”, yeah. One thing that particularly disappointed me was when I proposed starting up a Jaynes study group and got pretty much zero uptake. More disappointed even when people cited “too hard” as the reason.
Good points about technical meaning. I guess it’s not really people respecting the exact framework from Janis that I’d like, so much as saying things which are more interesting than “you guys are biased”. It’s just too easy to troll that way.
I’m not saying “no one should be able to charge groupthink”. I’m hoping that the discussion below this post will encourage and help newcomers (or even regulars) to make clearer and more pointed diagnoses of the pathologies of this community. Just saying “Robin and Eliezer have really biased the crowd on this one”, and particularly in the context of a discussion which was devoted to close critical examination of “this one”, is providing no value.
I’m a relative newcomer, so not really motivated by the celebrity status from OB. I want to encourage discourse that provides value and discourage that which does not. I am so motivated not out of righteousness, but for purely selfish motives: I have learned a lot from this site already (Bayes, Jaynes, MWI, a bunch of smaller conceptual tools from Eliezer’s OB writings) and I want more of that good stuff. Positive ROI is what this is about.