Everything I’m saying is definitely symmetric across persons, even if, as an author, I prefer to phrase it in the second person. (A previous post included a clarifying parenthetical to this effect at the end, but this one did not.)
That is, if someone who trusted your rationality noticed that you seemed visibly unmoved by their strongest arguments, they might think that the lack of agreement implies that they should update towards your position, but another possibility is that their trust has been misplaced! If they find themselves living a world of painted rocks where you are one of the rocks, then it may come to pass that protecting the sanctity of their map would require them to master the technique of lonely dissent.
You could argue that my author’s artistic preference to phrase things in the second person is misleading, but I’m not sure what to do about that while still accomplishing everything else I’m trying to do with my writing: my reply to Wei Dai and a Reddit user’s commentary on another previous post seem relevant.
Everything I’m saying is definitely symmetric across persons, even if, as an author, I prefer to phrase it in the second person. (A previous post included a clarifying parenthetical to this effect at the end, but this one did not.)
That is, if someone who trusted your rationality noticed that you seemed visibly unmoved by their strongest arguments, they might think that the lack of agreement implies that they should update towards your position, but another possibility is that their trust has been misplaced! If they find themselves living a world of painted rocks where you are one of the rocks, then it may come to pass that protecting the sanctity of their map would require them to master the technique of lonely dissent.
You could argue that my author’s artistic preference to phrase things in the second person is misleading, but I’m not sure what to do about that while still accomplishing everything else I’m trying to do with my writing: my reply to Wei Dai and a Reddit user’s commentary on another previous post seem relevant.