Wait, so is this a dialogue or not? It’s certainly styled as one, and has two LW users as authors, but… only one of them has written anything (yet), and seemingly doesn’t expect the other one to engage? Wouldn’t this have been better off as a post or a shortform or something like that?
I wanted to leave Niplav the option of replying at correspondence-pace at some point if they felt like it. I also wanted to say these things in public, to expose more people to the ideas, but without optimizing my phrasing/formatting for general-audience consumption.
I usually think people think better if they generally aim their thoughts at one person at a time. People lose their brains and get eaten by language games if their intellectual output is consistently too impersonal.
Also, I think if I were somebody else, I would appreciate me₁ for sharing a message which I₁ mainly intended for Niplav, as long as I₂ managed to learn something interesting from it. So if I₁ think it’s positive for me₂ to write the post, I₁ think I₁ should go ahead. But I’ll readjust if anybody says they dislike it. : )
Alright, that’s cool. I’m not actually bothered by it, and in any case I don’t intend to exert social pressure to enforce any kind of norm about this that mods might disagree with.
Wait, so is this a dialogue or not? It’s certainly styled as one, and has two LW users as authors, but… only one of them has written anything (yet), and seemingly doesn’t expect the other one to engage? Wouldn’t this have been better off as a post or a shortform or something like that?
I wanted to leave Niplav the option of replying at correspondence-pace at some point if they felt like it. I also wanted to say these things in public, to expose more people to the ideas, but without optimizing my phrasing/formatting for general-audience consumption.
I usually think people think better if they generally aim their thoughts at one person at a time. People lose their brains and get eaten by language games if their intellectual output is consistently too impersonal.
Also, I think if I were somebody else, I would appreciate me₁ for sharing a message which I₁ mainly intended for Niplav, as long as I₂ managed to learn something interesting from it. So if I₁ think it’s positive for me₂ to write the post, I₁ think I₁ should go ahead. But I’ll readjust if anybody says they dislike it. : )
Alright, that’s cool. I’m not actually bothered by it, and in any case I don’t intend to exert social pressure to enforce any kind of norm about this that mods might disagree with.