Same here. But—returning to the topic of the article—anything written by humans is in the same reference class, therefore outside view suggests that one should ignore all arguments made by humans, ever. And anything you might say in defense of your arguments is merely an inside view, therefore less trustworthy. I mean, the strawman example in my comment could also provide special arguments in support of their agument, which only shows that “special arguments” are better ignored.
At the end you are left with: “I believe my opinions are better than yours, because it’s obvious given my meta-opinions. And I believe my meta-opinions are better than yours, because it’s obvious given my meta-meta-opinions. And I believe my meta-meta-opinions are better than your, because… uhm, this is getting too abstract now, but I simply believe that this is how it is.” Again, not very convincing from the outside view. :D
I think the only argument I could give is a facepalm.
Same here. But—returning to the topic of the article—anything written by humans is in the same reference class, therefore outside view suggests that one should ignore all arguments made by humans, ever. And anything you might say in defense of your arguments is merely an inside view, therefore less trustworthy. I mean, the strawman example in my comment could also provide special arguments in support of their agument, which only shows that “special arguments” are better ignored.
At the end you are left with: “I believe my opinions are better than yours, because it’s obvious given my meta-opinions. And I believe my meta-opinions are better than yours, because it’s obvious given my meta-meta-opinions. And I believe my meta-meta-opinions are better than your, because… uhm, this is getting too abstract now, but I simply believe that this is how it is.” Again, not very convincing from the outside view. :D