IMO, I am not a huge fan of increasing the burden of evidence for medical claims one way or another. If the author believes that all things considered it’s better for most people to use a retinoid, then I think the post title seems good. If the author doesn’t believe that, then the title would be bad.
I don’t think you improve people’s decision-making in higher-stakes domains by reducing the amount of conversation and information sharing that happens around those topics (though it seems to be a common attractor in norm-space, which I find frustrating, and in as much as I get to set culture on LessWrong about how to handle topics that are often treated this way, I want to put an explicit flag up around “no, it’s fine to openly share advice about high-stakes domains, indeed we probably want to subsidize information sharing about high-stakes domains”).
IMO, I am not a huge fan of increasing the burden of evidence for medical claims one way or another. If the author believes that all things considered it’s better for most people to use a retinoid, then I think the post title seems good. If the author doesn’t believe that, then the title would be bad.
I don’t think you improve people’s decision-making in higher-stakes domains by reducing the amount of conversation and information sharing that happens around those topics (though it seems to be a common attractor in norm-space, which I find frustrating, and in as much as I get to set culture on LessWrong about how to handle topics that are often treated this way, I want to put an explicit flag up around “no, it’s fine to openly share advice about high-stakes domains, indeed we probably want to subsidize information sharing about high-stakes domains”).