This seems right to me for posts replying to individual authors/topics (and I think this criticism may apply to some other more targeted Nate posts in that vein)
But I think for giving his takes on a large breadth of people, the cost of making sure each section is well vetted increases the cost by a really prohibitive amount, and I think it’s probably better to do it the way Nate did here (clearly establishing the epistemic status of the post, and letting people in the comments argue if he got something wrong).
Also, curious if you think there’s a particular instance where someone(s) felt misrepresented here? (I just tried doing a skim of the comments, there were a lot of them and the first ones I saw seemed more like arguing with the substance of the disagreement rather than his characterization being wrong. I gave up kinda quickly, but for now, did you recall him getting something wrong here, or just thinking on general principle that one should’t err in this direction?)
This seems right to me for posts replying to individual authors/topics (and I think this criticism may apply to some other more targeted Nate posts in that vein)
But I think for giving his takes on a large breadth of people, the cost of making sure each section is well vetted increases the cost by a really prohibitive amount, and I think it’s probably better to do it the way Nate did here (clearly establishing the epistemic status of the post, and letting people in the comments argue if he got something wrong).
Also, curious if you think there’s a particular instance where someone(s) felt misrepresented here? (I just tried doing a skim of the comments, there were a lot of them and the first ones I saw seemed more like arguing with the substance of the disagreement rather than his characterization being wrong. I gave up kinda quickly, but for now, did you recall him getting something wrong here, or just thinking on general principle that one should’t err in this direction?)