Just in case anyone other than us is reading this,
For whatever little it’s worth, I read the first few plies of these subthreads, and skimmed the last few.
From my partial reading, it’s unclear to me that Lumifer is/was actually lying (being deliberately deceptive). More likely, in my view, is/was that Lumifer sincerely thinks spurious your distinction between (1) criminalizing disbelief in global warming, and (2) criminalizing the promulgation of assertions that global warming isn’t real in order to gain an unfair competitive advantage in a marketplace. I think Lumifer is being wrong & silly about that, but sincerely wrong & silly. On the “crimethink” accusation as applied to the paper specifically, Lumifer plainly made a cheap shot, and you were right to question it.
As for your disagreement with jimmy, I’m inclined to say you have the better of the argument, but I might be being overly influenced by (1) my dim view of jimmy’s philosophy/sociology of argument, at least as laid out above, (2) my incomplete reading of the discussion, and (3) my knowledge of your track record as someone who is relatively often correct, and open to dissecting disagreement with others, often to a painstaking extent.
I would like to quibble here that I’m not trying to argue anything, and that if gjm had said “I don’t think the authors are doing anything nearly equivalent to crimethink and would like to see you argue that they are”, I wouldn’t have engaged because I’m not interested in asserting that they are.
I’d call it more “[...] of deliberately avoiding argument in favor of “sharing honestly held beliefs for what they’re taken to be worth”, to those that are interested”. If they’re taken (by you, gjm, whoever) to be worth zero and there’s no interest in hearing them and updating on them, that’s totally cool by me.
For whatever little it’s worth, I read the first few plies of these subthreads, and skimmed the last few.
From my partial reading, it’s unclear to me that Lumifer is/was actually lying (being deliberately deceptive). More likely, in my view, is/was that Lumifer sincerely thinks spurious your distinction between (1) criminalizing disbelief in global warming, and (2) criminalizing the promulgation of assertions that global warming isn’t real in order to gain an unfair competitive advantage in a marketplace. I think Lumifer is being wrong & silly about that, but sincerely wrong & silly. On the “crimethink” accusation as applied to the paper specifically, Lumifer plainly made a cheap shot, and you were right to question it.
As for your disagreement with jimmy, I’m inclined to say you have the better of the argument, but I might be being overly influenced by (1) my dim view of jimmy’s philosophy/sociology of argument, at least as laid out above, (2) my incomplete reading of the discussion, and (3) my knowledge of your track record as someone who is relatively often correct, and open to dissecting disagreement with others, often to a painstaking extent.
This is helpful; thanks.
I, also, appreciate this comment.
I would like to quibble here that I’m not trying to argue anything, and that if gjm had said “I don’t think the authors are doing anything nearly equivalent to crimethink and would like to see you argue that they are”, I wouldn’t have engaged because I’m not interested in asserting that they are.
I’d call it more “[...] of deliberately avoiding argument in favor of “sharing honestly held beliefs for what they’re taken to be worth”, to those that are interested”. If they’re taken (by you, gjm, whoever) to be worth zero and there’s no interest in hearing them and updating on them, that’s totally cool by me.