I like this post a lot and it feels fairly foundational to me. But… I don’t have a strong impression that the people I most wanted to take heed of it really did.
I feel like there’s some core underlying problem where even acknowledging this sort of problem feels a bit like ceding ground, and I don’t know what to do about it. To be fair I also think this argument can be used as part of a deceptive ploy to make people think that you’re trying to be earnestly helpful but actually you’re just trying to control the conversation frame. It’s reasonable to be wary of that.
I think this post was published during some major “fight over the soul of LessWrong” periods, and didn’t have a strong effect during that period. After that period I got the feeling a lot of people sort of gave up and moved on.
I like this post a lot and it feels fairly foundational to me. But… I don’t have a strong impression that the people I most wanted to take heed of it really did.
In my mind this post pairs with my followup “Can you eliminate memetic scarcity instead of fighting?”, which also didn’t seem to take off as a key tool for conflict resolution.
I feel like there’s some core underlying problem where even acknowledging this sort of problem feels a bit like ceding ground, and I don’t know what to do about it. To be fair I also think this argument can be used as part of a deceptive ploy to make people think that you’re trying to be earnestly helpful but actually you’re just trying to control the conversation frame. It’s reasonable to be wary of that.
I think this post was published during some major “fight over the soul of LessWrong” periods, and didn’t have a strong effect during that period. After that period I got the feeling a lot of people sort of gave up and moved on.
I’m not sure what to make of all of this.