3. Author says “this is annoying enough that I’d prefer you not to comment on my posts anymore.” [Hopefully, although not necessarily, the author does this knowing that they are basically opting into you now being encouraged by LessWrong moderators to post your criticism elsewhere if you think it’s important. This might not currently be communicated that well but I think it should be]
4. Then you go and write a post titled ‘My thoughts on X’ or ‘Alternative Conversation about X’ or whatever, that says ‘the author seems wrong / bad.’
By that point, sure it might be annoying, but it’s presumably an improvement from the author’s take. (I know that if I wanted to write a post about some high level Weird Introspection Stuff that took a bunch of Weird Introspection Paradigm stuff for granted, I’d personally probably be annoyed if you made the discussion about whether the Weird Introspection Paradigm was even any good, and much less annoyed if you wrote another post saying so.
I might be typical minding, but two important bits from my perspective are ‘getting to have the conversation that I actually wanted to have’, and ‘not being forced to provide my own platform for someone else who I don’t think is arguing in good faith’
I’m fairly uncertain here. But I don’t currently share the intuition.
Note that the order of events I’m suggesting is:
1. Author posts.
2. Commenter says “this seems wrong / bad”. Disagreement ensues
3. Author says “this is annoying enough that I’d prefer you not to comment on my posts anymore.” [Hopefully, although not necessarily, the author does this knowing that they are basically opting into you now being encouraged by LessWrong moderators to post your criticism elsewhere if you think it’s important. This might not currently be communicated that well but I think it should be]
4. Then you go and write a post titled ‘My thoughts on X’ or ‘Alternative Conversation about X’ or whatever, that says ‘the author seems wrong / bad.’
By that point, sure it might be annoying, but it’s presumably an improvement from the author’s take. (I know that if I wanted to write a post about some high level Weird Introspection Stuff that took a bunch of Weird Introspection Paradigm stuff for granted, I’d personally probably be annoyed if you made the discussion about whether the Weird Introspection Paradigm was even any good, and much less annoyed if you wrote another post saying so.
I might be typical minding, but two important bits from my perspective are ‘getting to have the conversation that I actually wanted to have’, and ‘not being forced to provide my own platform for someone else who I don’t think is arguing in good faith’