I’ve talked to you enough to have some idea what you meant, but it’s buried beneath layers of different frames and inferential distance
FWIW, I don’t think that I’ve talked to ialdabaoth a huge amount, but the comment seemed pretty comprehensible to me. The grammar isn’t very complicated, and all the words are pretty common and mean what they usually mean*. Maybe I’m just spoiled by reading a lot of Robin Hanson? I sort of agree that point (b) applies and is sort of annoying.
*except maybe ‘abuse’, which is one that I’ve never been super clear on what exactly people mean by it, but that’s a word that’s basically unavoidable here. [I’m not very interested in people explaining it to me in this thread]
I have more thoughts (short answer: yeah, I think reading and internalizing Hanson is a quite reasonable way to bridge most of the inferential distance, although not all of it). Will respond in more detail later.
I’ll be moving this subthread to meta, but I’m taking this opportunity to force myself to actually build a “move subthread to meta” tool instead of doing it manually.
FWIW, I don’t think that I’ve talked to ialdabaoth a huge amount, but the comment seemed pretty comprehensible to me. The grammar isn’t very complicated, and all the words are pretty common and mean what they usually mean*. Maybe I’m just spoiled by reading a lot of Robin Hanson? I sort of agree that point (b) applies and is sort of annoying.
*except maybe ‘abuse’, which is one that I’ve never been super clear on what exactly people mean by it, but that’s a word that’s basically unavoidable here. [I’m not very interested in people explaining it to me in this thread]
I have more thoughts (short answer: yeah, I think reading and internalizing Hanson is a quite reasonable way to bridge most of the inferential distance, although not all of it). Will respond in more detail later.
I’ll be moving this subthread to meta, but I’m taking this opportunity to force myself to actually build a “move subthread to meta” tool instead of doing it manually.
I know the mod team have been busy in the past while, but I’d like to remind you of this.
Lol, thanks. I certainly did not end up getting around to this on the day I was planning to.