No, I am not eluding to a particular failure mode without naming it outright (I don’t think I do this much? We’ve talked a lot).
Especially bad consequences relative to other instances of this mistake because the topic relates to people’s relationship with their experience of suffering and potentially unfair dismissals of suffering, which can very easily cause damage to readers or encourage readers to cause damage to others.
If I write a post about Newcomblike suffering, I would probably want to encourage people to escape such situations without hurting others, and emphasize that, even if someone is ~directly inflicting this on you, thinking of it as “their fault” is counterproductive. Hate the game, not the players. They are in traps much the same as yours.
Are you eluding to some specific failure mode without wanting to state it outright?
Why would it have bad consequences, or worse consequences than any other post that didn’t depend on a literature review?
No, I am not eluding to a particular failure mode without naming it outright (I don’t think I do this much? We’ve talked a lot).
Especially bad consequences relative to other instances of this mistake because the topic relates to people’s relationship with their experience of suffering and potentially unfair dismissals of suffering, which can very easily cause damage to readers or encourage readers to cause damage to others.
How does reviewing literature help avoid this failure mode?
Could you point me to some specific examples of this? Or at least, could you tell me if these seem like correct examples:
Thresholding by Duncan Sabien
Frame Control by Aella
If I write a post about Newcomblike suffering, I would probably want to encourage people to escape such situations without hurting others, and emphasize that, even if someone is ~directly inflicting this on you, thinking of it as “their fault” is counterproductive. Hate the game, not the players. They are in traps much the same as yours.