Hmm, I feel sad about this kind of critique. Like, this comment invokes some very implicit standard for posts, without making it at all explicit. Of course neither this post nor the posts they link to are literally “not based on anything”. My guess is you are invoking an implicit standard for work to be “empirical” in order to be “anything”, but that also doesn’t really make sense since there are a lot of empirical arguments in this article and in the linked articles.
I think highlighting any specific assumption, or even some set of assumptions that you think is fragile would be helpful. Or being at all concrete about what you would consider work that is “anything”. But I think as it stands I find it hard to get much out of comments like this.
(Please don’t leave both top-level reacts and inline reacts of the same type on comments, that produces somewhat clearly confusing summary statistics. We might make it literally impossible, but until then, pick one and stick to it)
Hmm, I feel sad about this kind of critique. Like, this comment invokes some very implicit standard for posts, without making it at all explicit. Of course neither this post nor the posts they link to are literally “not based on anything”. My guess is you are invoking an implicit standard for work to be “empirical” in order to be “anything”, but that also doesn’t really make sense since there are a lot of empirical arguments in this article and in the linked articles.
I think highlighting any specific assumption, or even some set of assumptions that you think is fragile would be helpful. Or being at all concrete about what you would consider work that is “anything”. But I think as it stands I find it hard to get much out of comments like this.
(Please don’t leave both top-level reacts and inline reacts of the same type on comments, that produces somewhat clearly confusing summary statistics. We might make it literally impossible, but until then, pick one and stick to it)