This doesn’t seem like a productive or fair way to do criticism. By making it an in-person event rather than a written piece, you’re making it harder to respond to criticisms and potentially creating a hostile echo chamber. And by making it about an author instead of about a topic, you’re encouraging people to cherry-pick whichever posts they can find that are least defensible, out of a massive corpus, then present them as though they were representative.
Well… do you actually think that it’s never worth criticizing an author, rather than that author’s specific pieces of writing? Scott himself does this from time to time, does he not?
We’re not trying to make a hostile echo chamber. I can write up some of my responses to Scott in the next week, as I’ve got a significant amount of free time. My friend didn’t originally intend to write up his disagreements with Scott. But if there is sufficient interest from LW and SSC readers, I imagine he’d be willing to write some of it up. For what it’s worth, I do believe my friend has picked other pieces, and will sample lots, that he think are representative of Scott’s writing, and the ones he might zoom in on the most are just the ones I mentioned. I don’t know if for some of the disagreements I have with Scott if there are patterns among them, but a lot of them are discourse-related, and they’re popular posts in the SSC corpus.
This doesn’t seem like a productive or fair way to do criticism. By making it an in-person event rather than a written piece, you’re making it harder to respond to criticisms and potentially creating a hostile echo chamber. And by making it about an author instead of about a topic, you’re encouraging people to cherry-pick whichever posts they can find that are least defensible, out of a massive corpus, then present them as though they were representative.
Well… do you actually think that it’s never worth criticizing an author, rather than that author’s specific pieces of writing? Scott himself does this from time to time, does he not?
We’re not trying to make a hostile echo chamber. I can write up some of my responses to Scott in the next week, as I’ve got a significant amount of free time. My friend didn’t originally intend to write up his disagreements with Scott. But if there is sufficient interest from LW and SSC readers, I imagine he’d be willing to write some of it up. For what it’s worth, I do believe my friend has picked other pieces, and will sample lots, that he think are representative of Scott’s writing, and the ones he might zoom in on the most are just the ones I mentioned. I don’t know if for some of the disagreements I have with Scott if there are patterns among them, but a lot of them are discourse-related, and they’re popular posts in the SSC corpus.