it sure is a call to action, your epistemic defenses had better be good enough to figure out that it is a good one, because it is, and it is correct to pressure you about it. the fact that you’re uncertain about whether I am right does not mean that I am uncertain. it is perfectly alright to say you’re not sure if I’m right. but being annoyed at people for saying you should probably come to this conclusion is not reasonable when that conclusion is simply actually objectively justified—instead say you will have to think about it because you aren’t sure if you see the justification yet, or something, and remember that you don’t get to exclude comments from affecting your reputation, ever. if there’s a way you can encode your request for courtesy about required updates that better clarifies that you are in fact willing to make updates that do turn out to be important and critical moral cooperation policy updates, then finding that method of phrasing may in fact be positive expected value for the outside world because it would help people request moral updates of each other in ways that are not pushing too hard. but it is often correct to push. do not expect people to make an exception because the phrasing was too much pressure.
it sure is a call to action, your epistemic defenses had better be good enough to figure out that it is a good one, because it is, and it is correct to pressure you about it. the fact that you’re uncertain about whether I am right does not mean that I am uncertain. it is perfectly alright to say you’re not sure if I’m right. but being annoyed at people for saying you should probably come to this conclusion is not reasonable when that conclusion is simply actually objectively justified—instead say you will have to think about it because you aren’t sure if you see the justification yet, or something, and remember that you don’t get to exclude comments from affecting your reputation, ever. if there’s a way you can encode your request for courtesy about required updates that better clarifies that you are in fact willing to make updates that do turn out to be important and critical moral cooperation policy updates, then finding that method of phrasing may in fact be positive expected value for the outside world because it would help people request moral updates of each other in ways that are not pushing too hard. but it is often correct to push. do not expect people to make an exception because the phrasing was too much pressure.