to demand that people reading an article be apologetic if they ever disagree in the comments
This piece does not recommend this. That interpretation is explicitly ruled out (and pretty clearly) by the words of the piece itself. It’s not only not supported by the above, it’s directly contradicted.
So … you’ve changed the conversation from A to B, presumably unintentionally and without noticing that you did it. And I think this is “not the author’s problem.”
True, that was hyperbolic and I should have been more careful in how I worded this, sorry.
I’ll be more specific then:
For example:
“I don’t know if [author] will even see this comment, but [blah blah blah]”
“I’m not sure that I’ve actually understood your point, but what I think you’re saying is X, and my response to X is A (but if you weren’t saying X then A probably doesn’t apply).”
“Yo, please feel free to skip over this if it’s too time-consuming to be worth answering, but I was wondering…”
I think people shouldn’t usually be this apologetic when they express dissent, unless they’re very uncertain about they objections.
I think we shouldn’t encourage a norm of people being this apologetic by default. And while the post says it’s fine if people don’t follow that norm:
Again, I think it’s actually fine to not put in that extra work! I just think that, if you don’t, it’s kinda disingenuous to then be like “but you could’ve just not answered! No one would have cared!”
I still disagree. I don’t think it’s disingenuous at all. I think it’s fine to not put in the extra work, and also to not accept the author’s “expressing grumpiness about that fact” (well, depending on how exactly that grumpiness is expressed).
We shouldn’t model dissenters as imposing a “cost” if they do not follow that format. The “your questions are costly” framing in particular I especially disagree with, especially when the discussion is in the context of a public forum like LessWrong.
...shouldn’t usually be this apologetic when they express dissent... I think we shouldn’t encourage a norm of people being this apologetic by default.
Again the post does not recommend this. I am not going to respond further, because you are not actually talking to me or my post, but rather to a cardboard cutout you have superimposed over both.
(The recommendation is not to be apologetic, and it is not contingent on whether the commentary is dissenting or not. You keep leaping from conversation A to conversation B, and I am not interested in having conversation B, nor do I defend the B claims.)
This piece does not recommend this. That interpretation is explicitly ruled out (and pretty clearly) by the words of the piece itself. It’s not only not supported by the above, it’s directly contradicted.
So … you’ve changed the conversation from A to B, presumably unintentionally and without noticing that you did it. And I think this is “not the author’s problem.”
True, that was hyperbolic and I should have been more careful in how I worded this, sorry.
I’ll be more specific then:
I think people shouldn’t usually be this apologetic when they express dissent, unless they’re very uncertain about they objections.
I think we shouldn’t encourage a norm of people being this apologetic by default. And while the post says it’s fine if people don’t follow that norm:
I still disagree. I don’t think it’s disingenuous at all. I think it’s fine to not put in the extra work, and also to not accept the author’s “expressing grumpiness about that fact” (well, depending on how exactly that grumpiness is expressed).
We shouldn’t model dissenters as imposing a “cost” if they do not follow that format. The “your questions are costly” framing in particular I especially disagree with, especially when the discussion is in the context of a public forum like LessWrong.
Again the post does not recommend this. I am not going to respond further, because you are not actually talking to me or my post, but rather to a cardboard cutout you have superimposed over both.
(The recommendation is not to be apologetic, and it is not contingent on whether the commentary is dissenting or not. You keep leaping from conversation A to conversation B, and I am not interested in having conversation B, nor do I defend the B claims.)