While I sort of see your point, I do think Dean has a higher rate of randomly insulting other people (including myself) than pretty much anybody else respected within rationalist circles for their discourse norms[1].
(I’m not including people who, e.g., respect Musk for his ability to Get Things Done; I don’t think many people here think of Musk as an ideal debate participant).
Someone else doing something I think is ineffective doesn’t imply that it’s effective to do it! And yes, the fact that one side of a debate does the ineffective thing makes it more likely the other side will as well, but that’s not any sort of vindication! To quote myself:
Manheim’s Law of Positive-Sum Badness:
In polarized disputes, evidence that one side is stupid, malicious, or evil increases the probability that the opposing side is too.
Do you have an example you could share here or privately of him being rude? The more I look into his stuff seems he regularly mocks other people and blocks anyone challenging him. I mean I appreciate him saying the obvious on the anthropic dow situation as a former trump admin guy.
While I sort of see your point, I do think Dean has a higher rate of randomly insulting other people (including myself) than pretty much anybody else respected within rationalist circles for their discourse norms[1].
(I’m not including people who, e.g., respect Musk for his ability to Get Things Done; I don’t think many people here think of Musk as an ideal debate participant).
Someone else doing something I think is ineffective doesn’t imply that it’s effective to do it! And yes, the fact that one side of a debate does the ineffective thing makes it more likely the other side will as well, but that’s not any sort of vindication! To quote myself:
Fair, it depends a lot on whether you think the badness of insulting someone is due to intrinsic vs game-theoretic reasons.
Do you have an example you could share here or privately of him being rude? The more I look into his stuff seems he regularly mocks other people and blocks anyone challenging him. I mean I appreciate him saying the obvious on the anthropic dow situation as a former trump admin guy.
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