I don’t see how any of those questions relate to my post.
(For transparency:
I initially read your post as saying that, because RationalWiki isn’t “really” rational, their opinion on LW is automatically wrong and stupid; that therefore, anyone who shares or has absorbed that opinion (since the RW link was just a conveniently available illustration) is also wrong and stupid; and that therefore, their potential opinion of me as part of it is either inconsequential or totally outside my control. Or maybe you meant that people you know don’t take RW seriously, and that therefore I shouldn’t worry about encountering RW attitudes in the wild.
I then read more closely and realized that you weren’t actually saying any of that. Furthermore, your post wasn’t even directed at me, since I never claimed that RW served some vital and unique function (though if nothing else it’s good for documenting and illustrating the beliefs and attitudes of the type of people who contribute to it). For you to take my post to mean that (I reasoned at the time) would be stupid; and steelmanning and the principle of charity obligated me to act under the assumption that you weren’t stupid until conclusively shown otherwise. Therefore, I had to consider your post a personal tangent and ignore it.
I now realize that I was committing illusion of transparency, assuming short inferential distance and neglecting connotation. I apologize if my previous post connoted that I was holding RW above reproach; and I reject your connotation that RW’s flaws mean that I’m wrong to be concerned about the consequences of loudly promoting LW and its memes wherever I go.)
I don’t see how any of those questions relate to my post.
(For transparency:
I initially read your post as saying that, because RationalWiki isn’t “really” rational, their opinion on LW is automatically wrong and stupid; that therefore, anyone who shares or has absorbed that opinion (since the RW link was just a conveniently available illustration) is also wrong and stupid; and that therefore, their potential opinion of me as part of it is either inconsequential or totally outside my control. Or maybe you meant that people you know don’t take RW seriously, and that therefore I shouldn’t worry about encountering RW attitudes in the wild.
I then read more closely and realized that you weren’t actually saying any of that. Furthermore, your post wasn’t even directed at me, since I never claimed that RW served some vital and unique function (though if nothing else it’s good for documenting and illustrating the beliefs and attitudes of the type of people who contribute to it). For you to take my post to mean that (I reasoned at the time) would be stupid; and steelmanning and the principle of charity obligated me to act under the assumption that you weren’t stupid until conclusively shown otherwise. Therefore, I had to consider your post a personal tangent and ignore it.
I now realize that I was committing illusion of transparency, assuming short inferential distance and neglecting connotation. I apologize if my previous post connoted that I was holding RW above reproach; and I reject your connotation that RW’s flaws mean that I’m wrong to be concerned about the consequences of loudly promoting LW and its memes wherever I go.)