First: Yes I agree that my thing is a different thing, different enough to warrant a new name. And I am sneaking in negative affect.
Yeah, no kidding it’s easier to catch people doing it—because it’s a completely different thing!
Indeed, I am implicitly arguing that we should be focused on faults-we-actually-have[0], not faults-it’s-easy-to-see-we-don’t. My example of this is the above-linked podcast, where the hosts hem and haw and, after thinking about it, decide they have no sacred cows, and declare that Good (full disclosure: I like the podcast).
“Sacred-cow” as “well-formed proposition about the world you’d choose to be ignorant of” is clearly bad to LWers, so much so that it’s non-tribal.
[0] And especially, faults-we-have-in-common-with-non-rationalists! I said, “The advantage of this definition is that it’s easier to catch rationalists and non-rationalists doing it.” Said Achmiz gave examples using the word “people,” but I intended to group rationalists with non-rationalists.
First: Yes I agree that my thing is a different thing, different enough to warrant a new name. And I am sneaking in negative affect.
Indeed, I am implicitly arguing that we should be focused on faults-we-actually-have[0], not faults-it’s-easy-to-see-we-don’t. My example of this is the above-linked podcast, where the hosts hem and haw and, after thinking about it, decide they have no sacred cows, and declare that Good (full disclosure: I like the podcast).
“Sacred-cow” as “well-formed proposition about the world you’d choose to be ignorant of” is clearly bad to LWers, so much so that it’s non-tribal.
[0] And especially, faults-we-have-in-common-with-non-rationalists! I said, “The advantage of this definition is that it’s easier to catch rationalists and non-rationalists doing it.” Said Achmiz gave examples using the word “people,” but I intended to group rationalists with non-rationalists.