hmm, I’m not actually disagreeing with your empirical predictions about whether one can read sidechannels; I’m disagreeing that it’s relevant—Zack’s claim that sidechannel reading is insufficient to mindread Duncan does seem reasonable. And, in fact, duncan made a post expressing frustration about what appears to me issues with people failing to correctly infer his thinking, so I think Zack’s point is in fact well warranted—Duncan expressed he’s typically out-of-model for people who are surprised by this, so it makes sense that Zack would have issues interpreting his meaning from text. Duncan’s post expressing being out of model did request more assumption of uncertainty, and perhaps there’s a real disagreement in ideal approach here, but I don’t think failure to make mindreading guesses are why.
I think Duncan would be fine with people modelling him if those models were exceptionally discriminatory.
“It especially annoys me when racists are accused of ‘discrimination.’ The ability to discriminate is a precious faculty; by judging all members on one ‘race’ to be the same, the racist precisely shows himself incapable of discrimination.” — Christopher Hitchens
So the advice should be to model more discriminately rather than to not model at all. More mindreading, not less.
Once you know that I know I should make my beliefs pay rent in anticipated experiences, what more do you want me to know?
hmm, I’m not actually disagreeing with your empirical predictions about whether one can read sidechannels; I’m disagreeing that it’s relevant—Zack’s claim that sidechannel reading is insufficient to mindread Duncan does seem reasonable. And, in fact, duncan made a post expressing frustration about what appears to me issues with people failing to correctly infer his thinking, so I think Zack’s point is in fact well warranted—Duncan expressed he’s typically out-of-model for people who are surprised by this, so it makes sense that Zack would have issues interpreting his meaning from text. Duncan’s post expressing being out of model did request more assumption of uncertainty, and perhaps there’s a real disagreement in ideal approach here, but I don’t think failure to make mindreading guesses are why.
I think Duncan would be fine with people modelling him if those models were exceptionally discriminatory.
“It especially annoys me when racists are accused of ‘discrimination.’ The ability to discriminate is a precious faculty; by judging all members on one ‘race’ to be the same, the racist precisely shows himself incapable of discrimination.”
— Christopher Hitchens
So the advice should be to model more discriminately rather than to not model at all. More mindreading, not less.