(Upvoted, but also: this is an excellent post, and I find it encouraging w.r.t. what kind of level of quality of content I expect to see on The New LessWrong.)
Question: I wonder how the following fits into your paradigm—whether you consider it covered by the cases you listed, or is it something else:
Suppose that a goaltender is blind, but then his eyes are opened; having learned to see, however, he chooses quite deliberately to ignore the ball, just as before. (That is, an interlocutor who truly understands, but nonetheless fundamentally disagrees.)
You say:
Goaltenders who cease to be blind will not always agree with you.
… which seems related to what I describe, but doesn’t (I think) quite account for everything. I have in mind this distinction:
A blind goaltender may learn to see; and thereafter may agree with you about the importance of blocking the ball from getting into the net; but may nonetheless comprehensively disagree with you about how the ball should be blocked, how much effort should be expended on it, etc.
Conversely, a blind goaltender may learn to see; but, seeing the ball, he may nonetheless disdain it as irrelevant, and may watch the ball fly right into the net with equanimity and even approval.
Does that seem like a reasonable breakdown? (And if so, which do you think is more common? I’m not sure, myself…)
(Upvoted, but also: this is an excellent post, and I find it encouraging w.r.t. what kind of level of quality of content I expect to see on The New LessWrong.)
Question: I wonder how the following fits into your paradigm—whether you consider it covered by the cases you listed, or is it something else:
Suppose that a goaltender is blind, but then his eyes are opened; having learned to see, however, he chooses quite deliberately to ignore the ball, just as before. (That is, an interlocutor who truly understands, but nonetheless fundamentally disagrees.)
You say:
… which seems related to what I describe, but doesn’t (I think) quite account for everything. I have in mind this distinction:
A blind goaltender may learn to see; and thereafter may agree with you about the importance of blocking the ball from getting into the net; but may nonetheless comprehensively disagree with you about how the ball should be blocked, how much effort should be expended on it, etc.
Conversely, a blind goaltender may learn to see; but, seeing the ball, he may nonetheless disdain it as irrelevant, and may watch the ball fly right into the net with equanimity and even approval.
Does that seem like a reasonable breakdown? (And if so, which do you think is more common? I’m not sure, myself…)