Just to clarify, the statements that I described as crazy were not statements you professed, but statements that you said I or “the LessWrong community” believe. I am not sure whether that got across (since like, in that context it doesn’t really make sense to say I described sentences I disagree with as crazy, since like, I don’t think you believe those sentences either, that’s why you are criticizing them).
It did not get accross! Interesting. Procedurally I still object to calling people’s arguments “crazy”, but selfishly I guess I’m glad they were not my arguments? At a meta level though I’m still concerned that LessWrong culture is too quick to write off views as “crazy”. Even the the “coordination is delusional”-type views that Katja highlights in her post do not seem “crazy” to me, more like misguided or scarred or something, in a way that warrants a closer look but not being called “crazy”.
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.
Just to clarify, the statements that I described as crazy were not statements you professed, but statements that you said I or “the LessWrong community” believe. I am not sure whether that got across (since like, in that context it doesn’t really make sense to say I described sentences I disagree with as crazy, since like, I don’t think you believe those sentences either, that’s why you are criticizing them).
It did not get accross! Interesting. Procedurally I still object to calling people’s arguments “crazy”, but selfishly I guess I’m glad they were not my arguments? At a meta level though I’m still concerned that LessWrong culture is too quick to write off views as “crazy”. Even the the “coordination is delusional”-type views that Katja highlights in her post do not seem “crazy” to me, more like misguided or scarred or something, in a way that warrants a closer look but not being called “crazy”.
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.