I don’t like what he’s about, I think the rationalist community can do better, and I do not want to be a special guest at the same event he’s a special guest at. I hope that LessOnline goes well and that those who do go have a great time, and that my assessment is completely off-base. I mean, I don’t think it is, but I hope so.
This sounds to me like “hint hint I think you guys should disinvite him, and if it goes badly I will say that I told you so”.
“I told you so” is correct if you told someone something, they ignore it, and you were right.
I had a good time at LessOnline last year and expect to have a good time this year, but if Cremieux somehow ruins it for me, Eukaryote is absolutely entitled to tell me “I told you so”.
I guess you could choose to read it that way, but I’m not sure why you would—seems like an assumption of bad faith that doesn’t feel justified to me, especially on LW.
Just ask directly if you think the author meant to say that, IMO. Less chance for weird internet grudges that way. :)
I guess you could choose to read it that way, but I’m not sure why you would—seems like an assumption of bad faith that doesn’t feel justified to me, especially on LW.
Saying “I don’t like that you invited this person, and I think you shouldn’t have, and I think you should reverse that decision, and it’s on you if you ignore my advice and it goes poorly” doesn’t seem like it’s in bad faith to me. Caving to such bids seems like it would invite more such bids in the future, but I don’t think making such bids is particularly norm-breaking.
Did we read the same OP?
This sounds to me like “hint hint I think you guys should disinvite him, and if it goes badly I will say that I told you so”.
“I told you so” is correct if you told someone something, they ignore it, and you were right.
I had a good time at LessOnline last year and expect to have a good time this year, but if Cremieux somehow ruins it for me, Eukaryote is absolutely entitled to tell me “I told you so”.
I guess you could choose to read it that way, but I’m not sure why you would—seems like an assumption of bad faith that doesn’t feel justified to me, especially on LW.
Just ask directly if you think the author meant to say that, IMO. Less chance for weird internet grudges that way. :)
Saying “I don’t like that you invited this person, and I think you shouldn’t have, and I think you should reverse that decision, and it’s on you if you ignore my advice and it goes poorly” doesn’t seem like it’s in bad faith to me. Caving to such bids seems like it would invite more such bids in the future, but I don’t think making such bids is particularly norm-breaking.
sure
This seems a bit speculative to me. If OP didn’t believe that would the post have looked any different?