Seems plausible that LessWrong culture is too quick to write off views as “crazy”, though I have a bunch of conflicting feeling here. Might be worth going into at some point.
I do think there is something pretty qualitatively different about calling a paraphrase or an ITT of my own opinions “crazy” than to call someone’s actual opinion crazy. In-general my sense is for reacting to paraphrases it’s less bad for the social dynamics to give an honest impression and more important to give a blunt evocative reaction, but I’ll still try to clarify more in the future when I am referring to the meat of my interlocutors opinion vs. their representation of my opinion.
Oops, yeah, sorry about that not coming across.
Seems plausible that LessWrong culture is too quick to write off views as “crazy”, though I have a bunch of conflicting feeling here. Might be worth going into at some point.
I do think there is something pretty qualitatively different about calling a paraphrase or an ITT of my own opinions “crazy” than to call someone’s actual opinion crazy. In-general my sense is for reacting to paraphrases it’s less bad for the social dynamics to give an honest impression and more important to give a blunt evocative reaction, but I’ll still try to clarify more in the future when I am referring to the meat of my interlocutors opinion vs. their representation of my opinion.