It wasn’t Vladimir_Nesov’s interest that you feigned curiosity in and nor is it your place to decide what things others are interested in discussing. They are topics that are at least as relevant as such things as ‘Sleeping Beauty’ that people have merrily prattled on about for decades.
That you support a censorship of certain ideas by no means requires you to exhaustively challenge every possible downside to said censorship. Even if the decision were wise and necessary there is allowed to be disappointing consequences. That’s just how things are sometimes.
It wasn’t Vladimir_Nesov’s interest that you feigned curiosity in and nor is it your place to decide what things others are interested in discussing.
What do you mean by “decide”? Whether they are interested in that isn’t influenced by my decisions, and I can well think about whether they are, or whether they should be (i.e. whether there is any good to be derived from that interest).
I opened this thread by asking,
What kind of questions are not actually discussed that could’ve been discussed otherwise?
You answered this question, and then I said what I think about that kind of questions. It wasn’t obvious to me that you didn’t think of some other kind of questions that I find important, so I asked first, not just rhetorically.
What you implied in this comment seems very serious, and it was not my impression that something serious was taking place as a result of the banning incident, so of course I asked. My evaluation of whether the topics excluded (that you’ve named) are important is directly relevant to the reason your comment drew my attention.
On downvoting of parent comment: I’m actually surprised this comment got downvoted. It’s not as long inferential depth as this one that got downvoted worse, and it looks to me quite correct. Help me improve, say what’s wrong.
That you support a censorship of certain ideas by no means requires you to exhaustively challenge every possible downside to said censorship.
The other way around. I don’t “support censorship”, instead I don’t see that there are downsides worth mentioning (besides the PR hit), and as a result I disagree that censorship is important. Of course this indicates that I generally disagree with arguments for the harm of the censorship (that I so far understood), and so I argue with them (just as with any other arguments I disagree with that are on topic I’m interested in).
The zeal here is troubling.
No zeal, just expressing my state of belief, and not willing to yield for reasons other than agreement (which is true in general, the censorship topic or not).
No zeal, just expressing my state of belief, and not willing to yield for reasons other than agreement (which is true in general, the censorship topic or not).
No, yielding and the lack thereof is not the indicator of zeal of which I speak. It is the sending out of your soldiers so universally that they reach even into the territory of other’s preferences. That critical line between advocation of policy and the presumption that others must justify their very thoughts (what topics interests them and how their thoughts are affected by the threat of public shaming and censorship) is crossed.
The lack of boundaries is a telling sign according to my model of social dynamics.
It is the sending out of your soldiers so universally that they reach even into the territory of other’s preferences. That critical line between advocation of policy and the presumption that others must justify their very thoughts (what topics interests them and how their thoughts are affected by the threat of public shaming and censorship) is crossed.
It was not my intention to discuss whether something is interesting to others. If it wasn’t clear, I do state so here explicitly. You were probably misled by the first part of this comment, where I objected to your statement that I shouldn’t speculate about what others are interested in. I don’t see why not, so I objected, but I didn’t mean to imply that I did speculate about that in the relevant comment. What I did state is that I myself don’t believe that conversational topic important, and motivation for that remark is discussed in the second part of the same comment.
Besides, asserting that the topic is not interesting to others is false as a point of simple fact, and that would be the problem, not the pattern of its alignment with other assertions. Are there any other statements that you believe I endorse (“in support of censorship”) and that you believe are mistaken?
(Should I lump everything in one comment, or is the present way better? I find it more clear if different concerns are extracted as separate sub-threads.)
Steven beat me to it—this way works well. Bear in mind though that I wasn’t planning to engage in this subject too deeply. Simply because it furthers no goal that I am committed to and is interesting only in as much as it can spawn loosely related tangents.
That some topics are excluded is tautological, so it’s important what kind of topics were. Thus, stating “nor is it your place to decide what things others are interested in discussing” seems to be equivalent with stating “censorship (of any kind) is bad!”, which is not very helpful in the discussion of whether it’s in fact bad. What’s the difference you intended?
It wasn’t Vladimir_Nesov’s interest that you feigned curiosity in and nor is it your place to decide what things others are interested in discussing. They are topics that are at least as relevant as such things as ‘Sleeping Beauty’ that people have merrily prattled on about for decades.
That you support a censorship of certain ideas by no means requires you to exhaustively challenge every possible downside to said censorship. Even if the decision were wise and necessary there is allowed to be disappointing consequences. That’s just how things are sometimes.
The zeal here is troubling.
What do you mean by “decide”? Whether they are interested in that isn’t influenced by my decisions, and I can well think about whether they are, or whether they should be (i.e. whether there is any good to be derived from that interest).
I opened this thread by asking,
You answered this question, and then I said what I think about that kind of questions. It wasn’t obvious to me that you didn’t think of some other kind of questions that I find important, so I asked first, not just rhetorically.
What you implied in this comment seems very serious, and it was not my impression that something serious was taking place as a result of the banning incident, so of course I asked. My evaluation of whether the topics excluded (that you’ve named) are important is directly relevant to the reason your comment drew my attention.
On downvoting of parent comment: I’m actually surprised this comment got downvoted. It’s not as long inferential depth as this one that got downvoted worse, and it looks to me quite correct. Help me improve, say what’s wrong.
The other way around. I don’t “support censorship”, instead I don’t see that there are downsides worth mentioning (besides the PR hit), and as a result I disagree that censorship is important. Of course this indicates that I generally disagree with arguments for the harm of the censorship (that I so far understood), and so I argue with them (just as with any other arguments I disagree with that are on topic I’m interested in).
No zeal, just expressing my state of belief, and not willing to yield for reasons other than agreement (which is true in general, the censorship topic or not).
No, yielding and the lack thereof is not the indicator of zeal of which I speak. It is the sending out of your soldiers so universally that they reach even into the territory of other’s preferences. That critical line between advocation of policy and the presumption that others must justify their very thoughts (what topics interests them and how their thoughts are affected by the threat of public shaming and censorship) is crossed.
The lack of boundaries is a telling sign according to my model of social dynamics.
It was not my intention to discuss whether something is interesting to others. If it wasn’t clear, I do state so here explicitly. You were probably misled by the first part of this comment, where I objected to your statement that I shouldn’t speculate about what others are interested in. I don’t see why not, so I objected, but I didn’t mean to imply that I did speculate about that in the relevant comment. What I did state is that I myself don’t believe that conversational topic important, and motivation for that remark is discussed in the second part of the same comment.
Besides, asserting that the topic is not interesting to others is false as a point of simple fact, and that would be the problem, not the pattern of its alignment with other assertions. Are there any other statements that you believe I endorse (“in support of censorship”) and that you believe are mistaken?
On severe downvoting of the parent: What are that comment’s flaws? Tell me, I’ll try to correct them. (Must be obvious to warrant a −4.)
(Should I lump everything in one comment, or is the present way better? I find it more clear if different concerns are extracted as separate sub-threads.)
It’s not just more clear, it allows for better credit assignment in cases where both good and bad points are made.
Steven beat me to it—this way works well. Bear in mind though that I wasn’t planning to engage in this subject too deeply. Simply because it furthers no goal that I am committed to and is interesting only in as much as it can spawn loosely related tangents.
That some topics are excluded is tautological, so it’s important what kind of topics were. Thus, stating “nor is it your place to decide what things others are interested in discussing” seems to be equivalent with stating “censorship (of any kind) is bad!”, which is not very helpful in the discussion of whether it’s in fact bad. What’s the difference you intended?