The total of what your “paths forward” page says about limited resources: (1) instead of writing your own answers to every criticism, you can point critics to already-written things that address their criticisms; (2) if you have a suitable forum with like-thinking other people there, they may address the criticisms for you.
Perhaps it seems to you that these make it reasonable to have a policy of addressing every criticism and question despite limited resources. It doesn’t seem so to me.
I have read your document, I am not convinced by your arguments that we should attempt to address every single criticism and question, I am not convinced by your arguments that we can realistically do so, and I think the main practical effects of embracing your principles on this point would be (1) to favour obsessive cranks who have nothing else to do with their time than argue about their pet theories, (2) to encourage obsessive-crank-like behaviour, and (3) to make those who embrace them spend more time arguing on the internet. I can’t speak for others, but I don’t want to give advantages to obsessive cranks, I don’t want to become more obsessive and cranky myself, and I think it much more likely that I spend too much time arguing on the internet rather than too little.
I see nothing to suggest that further investigation of “paths forward” is likely to be a productive use of my time.
So: no, I don’t want to spend more time learning, discussing, or using “paths forward”. I think it would be a suboptimal way to use that time.
there are methods for doing Paths Forward with limited resource use. you just don’t want to learn/discuss/use them.
The total of what your “paths forward” page says about limited resources: (1) instead of writing your own answers to every criticism, you can point critics to already-written things that address their criticisms; (2) if you have a suitable forum with like-thinking other people there, they may address the criticisms for you.
Perhaps it seems to you that these make it reasonable to have a policy of addressing every criticism and question despite limited resources. It doesn’t seem so to me.
I have read your document, I am not convinced by your arguments that we should attempt to address every single criticism and question, I am not convinced by your arguments that we can realistically do so, and I think the main practical effects of embracing your principles on this point would be (1) to favour obsessive cranks who have nothing else to do with their time than argue about their pet theories, (2) to encourage obsessive-crank-like behaviour, and (3) to make those who embrace them spend more time arguing on the internet. I can’t speak for others, but I don’t want to give advantages to obsessive cranks, I don’t want to become more obsessive and cranky myself, and I think it much more likely that I spend too much time arguing on the internet rather than too little.
I see nothing to suggest that further investigation of “paths forward” is likely to be a productive use of my time.
So: no, I don’t want to spend more time learning, discussing, or using “paths forward”. I think it would be a suboptimal way to use that time.
By Jove, I think you got it!
:-D