When someone tells you a normally hidden consequence of what you’re doing, you don’t tell them off.
The norm is to give a full answer. If you don’t, say you will elaborate later, give a summary, or say it’s too long to explain. Don’t unilaterally defect.
If you defect, you’re telling people your time is more precious than theirs. This is rude.
In particular, you bother to post on LW in the first place. “Near-strangers deserve no information from me” is unfair.
We want to promote pointing out specific problems. A rant against memetics and signalling games in general is a bad answer to specific criticism.
When someone tells you a normally hidden consequence of what you’re doing, you don’t tell them off.
The norm is to give a full answer. If you don’t, say you will elaborate later, give a summary, or say it’s too long to explain. Don’t unilaterally defect.
If you defect, you’re telling people your time is more precious than theirs. This is rude.
In particular, you bother to post on LW in the first place. “Near-strangers deserve no information from me” is unfair.
We want to promote pointing out specific problems. A rant against memetics and signalling games in general is a bad answer to specific criticism.