Which linking I don’t mind a bit, since you’re effectively linking to my reply as well, which is then followed by your hasty departure from the thread with a claim that you’d answer my other points “later”… with no further comment for just under two years. Guess it’s not “later” yet.. ;-)
(Also, anyone who cares to read upthread from that link can see where I agreed with you about Marken’s paper, or how much time it took me to get you to state your “true rejection” before you dropped out of the discussion. AFAICT, you were only having the discussion so you could find ammunition for a conclusion you’d reached long before that point.)
You also seem to have the mistaken notion that I’m an idea partisan, i.e., that because I say an idea has some merit or that it isn’t completely worthless, that this means I’m an official spokesperson for that idea as well, and therefore am an Evil Outsider to be attacked.
Well, I’m not, and you’re being rude. Not only to me, but to everyone in the thread who’s now had to listen to both your petty hit-and-run pa(troll)ing, and to me replying.
So, I’m out of here (the subthread), but I won’t be coming back later to address any missed points, since the burden is still on you to actually address any of the many, MANY questions I asked you in that two-year-old thread, for which you still have yet to offer any reply, AFAICT.
I entered that discussion with a willingness to change my mind, but from the evidence at hand, it seems you did not.
(Note: if you do wish to have an intelligent discussion on the topic, you may reach me via the old thread. I’m pre-committing not to reply to you in this one, where you can indulge your obvious desire to score points off an audience, vs. actually discussing anything.)
(Note: if you do wish to have an intelligent discussion on the topic, you may reach me via the old thread. I’m pre-committing not to reply to you in this one, where you can indulge your obvious desire to score points off an audience, vs. actually discussing anything.)
Thanks for the poisoned well, but I don’t intend to abuse the last word. I think more highly of you now than I did when we had our prior altercation, but it remains true that I’ve seen zero experimental evidence for PCT in a cognitive context, and that Marken’s paper is an absolute mathematical sham. There may be valid aspects to PCT, but it hasn’t yet justified its use as a cognitive theory, and I feel that it’s important to note this whenever it comes up on Less Wrong.
(Incidentally, the reason I trailed off in that thread is because I’d done something that in retrospect was poor form: I’d written up a full critique of the Marken paper before I asked you whether you thought it constituted experimental evidence, and I was frustrated that you didn’t walk into the trap. If we both agree that the paper is pseudoscience, though, there’s nothing left to add.)
P.S. I don’t doubt that you’ve had success working with people through a PCT framework, but I suspect that it’s a placebo effect: a sufficiently fuzzy framework gives you room to justify your (usually correct) unconscious intuitions about what’s going on, and grants it the gravitas of a deep-sounding theory. (You might do just as well if you were a Freudian.) That’s one reason why I discount anecdotal evidence of that form.
Actually, Yvain brought it up.
Which linking I don’t mind a bit, since you’re effectively linking to my reply as well, which is then followed by your hasty departure from the thread with a claim that you’d answer my other points “later”… with no further comment for just under two years. Guess it’s not “later” yet.. ;-)
(Also, anyone who cares to read upthread from that link can see where I agreed with you about Marken’s paper, or how much time it took me to get you to state your “true rejection” before you dropped out of the discussion. AFAICT, you were only having the discussion so you could find ammunition for a conclusion you’d reached long before that point.)
You also seem to have the mistaken notion that I’m an idea partisan, i.e., that because I say an idea has some merit or that it isn’t completely worthless, that this means I’m an official spokesperson for that idea as well, and therefore am an Evil Outsider to be attacked.
Well, I’m not, and you’re being rude. Not only to me, but to everyone in the thread who’s now had to listen to both your petty hit-and-run pa(troll)ing, and to me replying.
So, I’m out of here (the subthread), but I won’t be coming back later to address any missed points, since the burden is still on you to actually address any of the many, MANY questions I asked you in that two-year-old thread, for which you still have yet to offer any reply, AFAICT.
I entered that discussion with a willingness to change my mind, but from the evidence at hand, it seems you did not.
(Note: if you do wish to have an intelligent discussion on the topic, you may reach me via the old thread. I’m pre-committing not to reply to you in this one, where you can indulge your obvious desire to score points off an audience, vs. actually discussing anything.)
Thanks for the poisoned well, but I don’t intend to abuse the last word. I think more highly of you now than I did when we had our prior altercation, but it remains true that I’ve seen zero experimental evidence for PCT in a cognitive context, and that Marken’s paper is an absolute mathematical sham. There may be valid aspects to PCT, but it hasn’t yet justified its use as a cognitive theory, and I feel that it’s important to note this whenever it comes up on Less Wrong.
(Incidentally, the reason I trailed off in that thread is because I’d done something that in retrospect was poor form: I’d written up a full critique of the Marken paper before I asked you whether you thought it constituted experimental evidence, and I was frustrated that you didn’t walk into the trap. If we both agree that the paper is pseudoscience, though, there’s nothing left to add.)
P.S. I don’t doubt that you’ve had success working with people through a PCT framework, but I suspect that it’s a placebo effect: a sufficiently fuzzy framework gives you room to justify your (usually correct) unconscious intuitions about what’s going on, and grants it the gravitas of a deep-sounding theory. (You might do just as well if you were a Freudian.) That’s one reason why I discount anecdotal evidence of that form.