Yeah, my gut doesn’t feel like it’s fabricated—Tuxedage and Eliezer would have to both be in on it and that seems really unlikely. And I can’t think of a motive, except perhaps as some sort of public lesson in noticing confusion, and that too seems far fetched.
I’ve just picked up the whole “if it’s really surprising it might be because its not be true” instinct from having been burned in the past by believing scientific findings that were later debunked, and now Lesswrong has condensed that instinct into a snappy little “notice confusion” cache. And this is pretty confusing.
I suppose a fabrication would be more confusing, in one sense.
yeah i think appealing to fabrication can be a bit hand-wavy sometimes. like you’re saying it’s fabricated like how other things are fabricated (since as we all know fabrication happens). but not every fabrication is the same or equally as easy to pull off. to say it was fabricated doesn’t say anything about how it was. but that’s not even a question that enters ones mind when they think of fabrication. how? well how anything else is fabricated of course..
it can be as much a reaction of disbelief as it is an alternative explanation.
Yeah, my gut doesn’t feel like it’s fabricated—Tuxedage and Eliezer would have to both be in on it and that seems really unlikely. And I can’t think of a motive, except perhaps as some sort of public lesson in noticing confusion, and that too seems far fetched.
I’ve just picked up the whole “if it’s really surprising it might be because its not be true” instinct from having been burned in the past by believing scientific findings that were later debunked, and now Lesswrong has condensed that instinct into a snappy little “notice confusion” cache. And this is pretty confusing.
I suppose a fabrication would be more confusing, in one sense.
yeah i think appealing to fabrication can be a bit hand-wavy sometimes. like you’re saying it’s fabricated like how other things are fabricated (since as we all know fabrication happens). but not every fabrication is the same or equally as easy to pull off. to say it was fabricated doesn’t say anything about how it was. but that’s not even a question that enters ones mind when they think of fabrication. how? well how anything else is fabricated of course..
it can be as much a reaction of disbelief as it is an alternative explanation.