One problem is that it’s not always easy to tell which ones you learn from.
It seems that my impression of most of EY’s (and your) posts was that they were “well-written and true (but obvious)”, but that doesn’t mean I didn’t learn anything. Once I started thinking about it, I started catching myself mistakes that I normally wouldn’t have caught.
It’s not that I read about mind projection fallacy and thought “Oh! I guess it doesn’t actually work like that after all”. If you asked me, I would have always told you that mind projection was a common fallacy. It was more like “Oh, wow. I screw up in that way occasionally too.”
The other point is that it is very useful to have a library of posts that are well written and true, as long as it’s not obvious to everyone. When you’re talking to someone and they screw up, having read well written posts on the subject can make it easier to put your objection into words. If that fails you can just say “check your email when you get home- you have a reading assignment”.
One problem is that it’s not always easy to tell which ones you learn from.
It seems that my impression of most of EY’s (and your) posts was that they were “well-written and true (but obvious)”, but that doesn’t mean I didn’t learn anything. Once I started thinking about it, I started catching myself mistakes that I normally wouldn’t have caught.
It’s not that I read about mind projection fallacy and thought “Oh! I guess it doesn’t actually work like that after all”. If you asked me, I would have always told you that mind projection was a common fallacy. It was more like “Oh, wow. I screw up in that way occasionally too.”
The other point is that it is very useful to have a library of posts that are well written and true, as long as it’s not obvious to everyone. When you’re talking to someone and they screw up, having read well written posts on the subject can make it easier to put your objection into words. If that fails you can just say “check your email when you get home- you have a reading assignment”.