I do, however, object to the implication that I was, in any way, advocating “jumping down the throat of” or “calling on the community to shun” ideas that pattern-match to things that are bad-in-expectation. I think that people reading this thread will reasonably assume that that was your summary of me (since you were making that objection in response to my comment) and that this is an uncharitable strawman that clearly doesn’t match the actual words in my actual comment.
Perhaps that impression would not have been left if I had more strenuously objected to the specific over-the-top stuff in PDV’s post (“cancer” and so forth)? I left those out of my endorsement, but maybe that would’ve been clearer if I’d included specific lines against them.
I do, however, object to the implication that I was, in any way, advocating “jumping down the throat of” or “calling on the community to shun” ideas that pattern-match to things that are bad-in-expectation. I think that people reading this thread will reasonably assume that that was your summary of me (since you were making that objection in response to my comment) and that this is an uncharitable strawman that clearly doesn’t match the actual words in my actual comment.
Perhaps that impression would not have been left if I had more strenuously objected to the specific over-the-top stuff in PDV’s post (“cancer” and so forth)? I left those out of my endorsement, but maybe that would’ve been clearer if I’d included specific lines against them.