Who are you writing for? If you skipped ahead to the metaethics main sequence and just pointed to the literature for cogsci background, do you expect that they would not understand you?
Writing posts such as these makes the content much more accessible than just providing a reference. Even if Luke uploaded the papers on his website for easy access, reading a paper requires more mental energy than reading a blog post. Even people who’ll read the papers if they are convinced that those have something worthwhile can be helped by a blog post that helps convince them that reading the paper is worthwhile.
Maybe, but I’m not sure they’d believe me. In particular, there seem to be quite a few LWers who have a different picture of concepts than do the cognitive scientists who study concepts. So I need to change minds about a few things before I can proceed with metaethics.
It’s possible I should write my shelved post on motivational externalism, too, since there are some LWers who don’t think it’s true. So it might be wise for me to write a summary of the cogsci there, too.
Thanks! More like this, please.
Who are you writing for? If you skipped ahead to the metaethics main sequence and just pointed to the literature for cogsci background, do you expect that they would not understand you?
Writing posts such as these makes the content much more accessible than just providing a reference. Even if Luke uploaded the papers on his website for easy access, reading a paper requires more mental energy than reading a blog post. Even people who’ll read the papers if they are convinced that those have something worthwhile can be helped by a blog post that helps convince them that reading the paper is worthwhile.
Maybe, but I’m not sure they’d believe me. In particular, there seem to be quite a few LWers who have a different picture of concepts than do the cognitive scientists who study concepts. So I need to change minds about a few things before I can proceed with metaethics.
It’s possible I should write my shelved post on motivational externalism, too, since there are some LWers who don’t think it’s true. So it might be wise for me to write a summary of the cogsci there, too.