As an aside, is there an article about Not Even Wrong here? I don’t remember one, and it is an important idea to which a lot are probably already familiar. Goes well with the list name, too.
As to your broader point, I agree that “show me where I’m wrong” is suboptimal with regard to establishing a genuinely open system of ideas. It’s also a good first step, though, and so I’d view a failure to internalize repudiation as a red flag of the same species as what you seem to be pointing to—a bigger one, in fact. Not sufficient, but necessary.
Certainly if you have been repudiated, but fail to internalize the repudiation, you’ve got a big red flag. But that’s why I think’s it less dangerous and debilitating—it’s clear, obvious, and visible.
I consider only listening to repudiations as the bigger problem: it is being willfully deaf and non responsive to potential improvement. It’s not failing to understand, it’s refusing to listen.
I consider only listening to repudiations as the bigger problem
In that case, Lukeprog’s metaethics sequence must have been of great comfort to you, since he didn’t really spend much time on Eliezer’s metaethics sequence. Perhaps you could just start covering Stimer’s material in a discussion post or two and see what happens.
Not that I know of, although it’s referenced all over the place—like Paul Graham’s paper on identity, it seems to be an external part of the LW canon. The Wikipedia page on “Not Even Wrong” does appear in XiXiDu’s list of external resources—a post that’s faded into undeserved obscurity, I think.
As to your broader point, I agree that “show me where I’m wrong” is suboptimal with regard to establishing a genuinely open system of ideas. It’s also a good first step, though, and so I’d view a failure to internalize repudiation as a red flag of the same species as what you seem to be pointing to—a bigger one, in fact. Not sufficient, but necessary.
Certainly if you have been repudiated, but fail to internalize the repudiation, you’ve got a big red flag. But that’s why I think’s it less dangerous and debilitating—it’s clear, obvious, and visible.
I consider only listening to repudiations as the bigger problem: it is being willfully deaf and non responsive to potential improvement. It’s not failing to understand, it’s refusing to listen.
In that case, Lukeprog’s metaethics sequence must have been of great comfort to you, since he didn’t really spend much time on Eliezer’s metaethics sequence. Perhaps you could just start covering Stimer’s material in a discussion post or two and see what happens.