I think you’re raising reasonable points, fairly gently. I think the overall issue is important, and was in my mind as I planned and wrote this. I get that, given that this post was high karma and curated, and has at least one comment saying we should scale Vavilov day immediately, it felt important to you to note the pitfalls (even if I already pushed against the universalization). But I don’t have a way to respond to this in LW comments that doesn’t feel like justifying my personal choices, and I’m not interested in doing that.
Potential alternatives include “you create a top-level post discussing the general case”, an off-LW conversation between us, or just not following up. If anyone else wants to continue this conversation I encourage you to make your own post doing so (and feel free to link to it here): I’m leaving this comment up because I think it’s important, but I will be locking or deleting comments that attempt to continue the conversation further on this post.
I think you’re raising reasonable points, fairly gently. I think the overall issue is important, and was in my mind as I planned and wrote this. I get that, given that this post was high karma and curated, and has at least one comment saying we should scale Vavilov day immediately, it felt important to you to note the pitfalls (even if I already pushed against the universalization). But I don’t have a way to respond to this in LW comments that doesn’t feel like justifying my personal choices, and I’m not interested in doing that.
Potential alternatives include “you create a top-level post discussing the general case”, an off-LW conversation between us, or just not following up. If anyone else wants to continue this conversation I encourage you to make your own post doing so (and feel free to link to it here): I’m leaving this comment up because I think it’s important, but I will be locking or deleting comments that attempt to continue the conversation further on this post.
EDIT: Created a discussion post here.