Usually I don’t think short comments of agreement really contribute to conversations, but this is actually critical and in the interest of trying to get a public preference cascade going: No. You are not the only one creeped out by this. The parts of The Sequences which have held up the best over the last decade are the refinements on General Semantics, and I too am dismayed at the abandonment of carve-reality-at-its-joints.
I’m surprised you think this is “absolutely critical”. Do you think I’m making a grave error in my newfound distaste for paraphyletic groupings? (My ability to notice their awkwardness felt internally like evidence that my joint-carving skills have improved over the years, ftr.) Is there some other joint-carving skill you believe I am lacking, or have lost? Or perhaps you’re decrying a decay in general community epistemics, for which my thread is simply a poster-child? Or perhaps you’re lamenting some general community or global decline of candor? I’m uncertain what precisely you’re dismayed about, and solicit specific criticisms of my actions.
The example of dolphins didn’t seem central to the general dynamics what the claim was about. “nitwit games” is a description of a logic you can’t follow that you want to mock. The tree article made sense to me how a dolphin-fish carving would work. One of the virtues is to say “oops” and go on, this does make the mistakes more “stealthy”.
I don’t like the bashing of ways of thinking so spewing hatred that way or this way is pretty passee anyway. One can be consistent in being against random fences and being for principled fences and call for a fencde to be taken down. But later learn that there was actually a principle and functioning of laying it down. Then it becomes an issue whether the original principles were better or worse than the new proposed principles. How long must one search before it starts to bereaosnable to treat the fence as purposeless?
I think I would welcome reflection on how being mocky by surface examination is/was a bit misleading. There surely are a lot of biases and illusions but human brains try so assuming basic competence would give a somewhat favorable prior that a lot of words have some sensible structure in them. That some of them are pretty transparent and some are pretty obscure but that doesn’t make it constructive to judge all obscure things by their apperance.
Usually I don’t think short comments of agreement really contribute to conversations, but this is actually critical and in the interest of trying to get a public preference cascade going: No. You are not the only one creeped out by this. The parts of The Sequences which have held up the best over the last decade are the refinements on General Semantics, and I too am dismayed at the abandonment of carve-reality-at-its-joints.
I’m surprised you think this is “absolutely critical”. Do you think I’m making a grave error in my newfound distaste for paraphyletic groupings? (My ability to notice their awkwardness felt internally like evidence that my joint-carving skills have improved over the years, ftr.) Is there some other joint-carving skill you believe I am lacking, or have lost? Or perhaps you’re decrying a decay in general community epistemics, for which my thread is simply a poster-child? Or perhaps you’re lamenting some general community or global decline of candor? I’m uncertain what precisely you’re dismayed about, and solicit specific criticisms of my actions.
I am not super creeped out by this.
The example of dolphins didn’t seem central to the general dynamics what the claim was about. “nitwit games” is a description of a logic you can’t follow that you want to mock. The tree article made sense to me how a dolphin-fish carving would work. One of the virtues is to say “oops” and go on, this does make the mistakes more “stealthy”.
I don’t like the bashing of ways of thinking so spewing hatred that way or this way is pretty passee anyway. One can be consistent in being against random fences and being for principled fences and call for a fencde to be taken down. But later learn that there was actually a principle and functioning of laying it down. Then it becomes an issue whether the original principles were better or worse than the new proposed principles. How long must one search before it starts to bereaosnable to treat the fence as purposeless?
I think I would welcome reflection on how being mocky by surface examination is/was a bit misleading. There surely are a lot of biases and illusions but human brains try so assuming basic competence would give a somewhat favorable prior that a lot of words have some sensible structure in them. That some of them are pretty transparent and some are pretty obscure but that doesn’t make it constructive to judge all obscure things by their apperance.