My main objection is that the post is built around a case where Quinn is very wrong in their initial “bad consequences” claim, and that this leads people to have misleading intuitions. I was trying to propose an alternative situation where the “bad consequences” claim was true or closer to true, but where Quinn would still be wrong to suggest Carter shouldn’t describe what they’d found.
(Also, for what it’s worth, I find the Quinn character’s argumentative approach very frustrating to read. This makes it hard to take anything that character describes seriously.)
My main objection is that the post is built around a case where Quinn is very wrong in their initial “bad consequences” claim, and that this leads people to have misleading intuitions. I was trying to propose an alternative situation where the “bad consequences” claim was true or closer to true, but where Quinn would still be wrong to suggest Carter shouldn’t describe what they’d found.
(Also, for what it’s worth, I find the Quinn character’s argumentative approach very frustrating to read. This makes it hard to take anything that character describes seriously.)