what should i do with strong claims whose reasons are not easy to articulate, or the culmination of a lot of smaller subjective impressions? should i just not say them publicly, to not conjunctively-cause needless drama? here’s an example:
“i perceive the average LW commenter as maybe having read the sequences long ago, but if so having mostly forgotten their lessons.”
In the general case I don’t have any particularly valuable guidance but on the object level for your particular hypothesis I’d say
Ask Screwtape to add a question to next year’s Unofficial LessWrong Census/Survey asking which year(s) the respondent read a substantial number of core sequence posts.
what should i do with strong claims whose reasons are not easy to articulate, or the culmination of a lot of smaller subjective impressions? should i just not say them publicly, to not conjunctively-cause needless drama? here’s an example:
“i perceive the average LW commenter as maybe having read the sequences long ago, but if so having mostly forgotten their lessons.”
In the general case I don’t have any particularly valuable guidance but on the object level for your particular hypothesis I’d say
Ask Screwtape to add a question to next year’s Unofficial LessWrong Census/Survey asking which year(s) the respondent read a substantial number of core sequence posts.