“I don’t need to engage with Anthony’s arguments unless he presents them to my satisfaction.”
AND
“No one on Earth has ever presented Bayes to my satisfaction.”
If NO ONE has EVER presented that information to your satisfaction, it would be daft to assume I would accomplish such a feat! You have such high standards as a pre-requisite to your engagement, that by your OWN admission, NO ONE in history has ever MET your standard! Why bother telling me all this? I didn’t share the post to convince or proselytize—as I said in the intro, I am only sharing this on your site as a courtesy. I wrote it on another newsletter, for the general public to learn about all of you.
And, considering that your community’s response is “I don’t have to engage with the argument unless you present it to my satisfaction, and NO ONE has ever done so, thus I win,” the public should get to have a good, stern look at your behavior and justifications. I get you to betray yourself, and screenshot your responses, to show the PUBLIC what your community is like.
You should not argue for that which you do not understand in the first place as though you understood it.
I think I am a very odd member of the rationalist community; it would not make sense to take me as a representative. Many people here would probably be comfortable saying they understand Bayesianism after a typical explanation and I would have to disagree with them about that, little high-standards weirdo that I am.
I’m sorry that you feel like I was making any of my responses at your expense; I don’t want you to lose, and by helping each other make considerations not made before I believe we are helping each other win.
Wait. Let me see if I’ve got the core points:
“I don’t need to engage with Anthony’s arguments unless he presents them to my satisfaction.”
AND
“No one on Earth has ever presented Bayes to my satisfaction.”
If NO ONE has EVER presented that information to your satisfaction, it would be daft to assume I would accomplish such a feat! You have such high standards as a pre-requisite to your engagement, that by your OWN admission, NO ONE in history has ever MET your standard! Why bother telling me all this? I didn’t share the post to convince or proselytize—as I said in the intro, I am only sharing this on your site as a courtesy. I wrote it on another newsletter, for the general public to learn about all of you.
And, considering that your community’s response is “I don’t have to engage with the argument unless you present it to my satisfaction, and NO ONE has ever done so, thus I win,” the public should get to have a good, stern look at your behavior and justifications. I get you to betray yourself, and screenshot your responses, to show the PUBLIC what your community is like.
You should not argue for that which you do not understand in the first place as though you understood it.
I think I am a very odd member of the rationalist community; it would not make sense to take me as a representative. Many people here would probably be comfortable saying they understand Bayesianism after a typical explanation and I would have to disagree with them about that, little high-standards weirdo that I am.
I’m sorry that you feel like I was making any of my responses at your expense; I don’t want you to lose, and by helping each other make considerations not made before I believe we are helping each other win.