I think when I’m tempted to use the following reacts, I shouldn’t and should use a different one. Feel free to call me out on using these reacts, though ideally on things that are published later than this shortform (I’m not going to remove old reacts I made):
Skeptical. I think I should probably just use a probability here
Missed the point. I think I mostly don’t like this when I see it used; it feels like an illicitly specific-but-not-evidenced claim against the writing it’s applied to.
Locally invalid. It’s tempted to rejoin “locally invalid” to poor argument, but I think most written arguments are somewhat locally invalid (in a strict sense of validity), and this is true whether they’re good or bad arguments. So this basically boils down to “I don’t like this argument”, but makes it sound like I’m saying something specific and epistemically helpful.
With a heavy heart, I checked it’s true and I checked it’s false. I like these a lot, but I feel like they don’t sufficiently communicate whatever evidence I collected, and so I should just comment saying that evidence if I want to say something helpful.
I think when I’m tempted to use the following reacts, I shouldn’t and should use a different one. Feel free to call me out on using these reacts, though ideally on things that are published later than this shortform (I’m not going to remove old reacts I made):
Skeptical. I think I should probably just use a probability here
Missed the point. I think I mostly don’t like this when I see it used; it feels like an illicitly specific-but-not-evidenced claim against the writing it’s applied to.
Locally invalid. It’s tempted to rejoin “locally invalid” to poor argument, but I think most written arguments are somewhat locally invalid (in a strict sense of validity), and this is true whether they’re good or bad arguments. So this basically boils down to “I don’t like this argument”, but makes it sound like I’m saying something specific and epistemically helpful.
With a heavy heart, I checked it’s true and I checked it’s false. I like these a lot, but I feel like they don’t sufficiently communicate whatever evidence I collected, and so I should just comment saying that evidence if I want to say something helpful.