Yes, I wasn’t at all saying bigger circles are generically better. (I realize this can be a bit tricky since this post involves some songs/poetry, and is in mid-confused-existential-crisis where a bunch of different pieces of my worldview get briefly namedropped without being spelled out. But I deliberately left this post non-frontpaged because I wanted the discussion of it to center on people who’ve read the sequences and have a bunch of similar philosophical background as me)
(b) The reason I found this post is that your coordination frontier intro got me interested enough that I looked for a way to be notified of future posts in that sequence, and the best option I could find was subscribing to all your posts
Nod. Apologies for the somewhat curt/patronizing tone in the previous comment. I think your point here is a fine point but is not really what I wanted the discussion on this particular post to be about. (It feels like it’s arguing against a position I don’t expect anyone here to actually hold)
But, I do appreciate you following my posts generally and look forward to other discussion on this post and others.
It appeared to me that your post was at least partially motivated by questioning the philosophical robustness of the first song, and that the song could plausibly be criticized for implying that bigger circles are inherently better, even if the people singing it don’t reflectively endorse that position.
(I admit that songs need to choose a trade-off between brevity and nuance that is further towards the “brevity” side than most philosophy, but I don’t feel like “bigger is better” is much good even as an approximation.)
Yes, I wasn’t at all saying bigger circles are generically better. (I realize this can be a bit tricky since this post involves some songs/poetry, and is in mid-confused-existential-crisis where a bunch of different pieces of my worldview get briefly namedropped without being spelled out. But I deliberately left this post non-frontpaged because I wanted the discussion of it to center on people who’ve read the sequences and have a bunch of similar philosophical background as me)
For context,
(a) I have read the sequences
(b) The reason I found this post is that your coordination frontier intro got me interested enough that I looked for a way to be notified of future posts in that sequence, and the best option I could find was subscribing to all your posts
Nod. Apologies for the somewhat curt/patronizing tone in the previous comment. I think your point here is a fine point but is not really what I wanted the discussion on this particular post to be about. (It feels like it’s arguing against a position I don’t expect anyone here to actually hold)
But, I do appreciate you following my posts generally and look forward to other discussion on this post and others.
No offense taken.
It appeared to me that your post was at least partially motivated by questioning the philosophical robustness of the first song, and that the song could plausibly be criticized for implying that bigger circles are inherently better, even if the people singing it don’t reflectively endorse that position.
(I admit that songs need to choose a trade-off between brevity and nuance that is further towards the “brevity” side than most philosophy, but I don’t feel like “bigger is better” is much good even as an approximation.)