2) My opinion is based on fairly large body of understanding accumulated over many years
3) I think I understand where the other person is going wrong
4) trying to reach convergence would, in practice, look like a pointless argument that would only piss everyone off.
If there are real consequences at stake, I’ll speak up. Often I’ll have to take it offline and write a few pages, because some positions too complex for most people to follow orally. But if the agreement isn’t worth the argument, I probably won’t.
And if the problem formulation is much simpler than the solution then there will be a recurring explanatory debt to be paid down as multitudes of idiots re-encounter the problem and ignore existing solutions.
I frequently find myself in situations where:
1) I disagree with someone
2) My opinion is based on fairly large body of understanding accumulated over many years
3) I think I understand where the other person is going wrong
4) trying to reach convergence would, in practice, look like a pointless argument that would only piss everyone off.
If there are real consequences at stake, I’ll speak up. Often I’ll have to take it offline and write a few pages, because some positions too complex for most people to follow orally. But if the agreement isn’t worth the argument, I probably won’t.
And if the problem formulation is much simpler than the solution then there will be a recurring explanatory debt to be paid down as multitudes of idiots re-encounter the problem and ignore existing solutions.
This is what FAQs are for. On LW, The Sequences are our FAQ.