I think an important point here is that GeneSmith actually wrote a post that’s of high quality and interest to billionaires that people pass around.
The mechanism that he described is not about billionaires reading random posts on the front page but about high value posts being passed around. Billionares have network that help them to get send post that are valuable to them.
The point I’m making doesn’t depend on truth of the claim or validity of the argument (from the GeneSmith post followup) that suggests it. What I’m suggesting implies that public legible discussion of truth of the claim or of validity of the arguments is undesirable.
I think there’s a pretty strong default that discussing the truth of claims that actually matter to the decisions people make is worthwhile on LessWrong.
Saying, we can speak about the truth of some things but not about those that are actually really motivating for real-world decision-making seems to me like it’s not good for LessWrong culture.
Sure, that’s a consideration, but it’s a global consideration that still doesn’t depend on truth of the claim or validity of the argument. Yes Requires the Possibility of No, not discussing a Yes requires not discussing a No, and conversely. In the grandparent comment, I merely indicated that failing to discuss truth of the claim or validity of the argument is consistent with the point I was making.
I think an important point here is that GeneSmith actually wrote a post that’s of high quality and interest to billionaires that people pass around.
The mechanism that he described is not about billionaires reading random posts on the front page but about high value posts being passed around. Billionares have network that help them to get send post that are valuable to them.
The point I’m making doesn’t depend on truth of the claim or validity of the argument (from the GeneSmith post followup) that suggests it. What I’m suggesting implies that public legible discussion of truth of the claim or of validity of the arguments is undesirable.
I think there’s a pretty strong default that discussing the truth of claims that actually matter to the decisions people make is worthwhile on LessWrong.
Saying, we can speak about the truth of some things but not about those that are actually really motivating for real-world decision-making seems to me like it’s not good for LessWrong culture.
Sure, that’s a consideration, but it’s a global consideration that still doesn’t depend on truth of the claim or validity of the argument. Yes Requires the Possibility of No, not discussing a Yes requires not discussing a No, and conversely. In the grandparent comment, I merely indicated that failing to discuss truth of the claim or validity of the argument is consistent with the point I was making.