I agree, but I also think any individual overdoing it is not productive, because (i) you’ll seem to have ulterior motives and become less persuasive (ii) you’ll end up rehashing the same arguments with the same doubters (iii) you burn out on sincerity and earnestness and your engagement becomes less good so you fall into the “urgh the takes are so bad” mentality, which is unproductive for engaging genuine good faith people
Basically I would love for a constant stream of new people to keep sharing their thoughts on this Ezra Klein style. Especially if they had previously been opposed to it and recently became safety pilled (“only nixon could go to china” etc)
I agree, but I also think any individual overdoing it is not productive, because (i) you’ll seem to have ulterior motives and become less persuasive (ii) you’ll end up rehashing the same arguments with the same doubters (iii) you burn out on sincerity and earnestness and your engagement becomes less good so you fall into the “urgh the takes are so bad” mentality, which is unproductive for engaging genuine good faith people
Basically I would love for a constant stream of new people to keep sharing their thoughts on this Ezra Klein style. Especially if they had previously been opposed to it and recently became safety pilled (“only nixon could go to china” etc)
fwiw i suspect ezra is not a nixon here.