Also, another part of my motivation is still valid and I think it would be interesting to try to answer why didn’t you (and others) just not defer? Not in a rhetorical sense, but what actually caused this?
Ok, sure, that’s a good question, and also off-topic.
Was it age as you hinted earlier?
Yeah obviously. It’s literally impossible to not defer, all you get to pick is which things you invest in undeferring in what order. I’m exceptionally non-deferential but yeah obviously you have to defer about lots of things.
Was it just human nature to want to defer to someone?
Yes it is also human nature to want to defer. E.g. that’s how you stay synched with your tribe on what stuff matters, how to act, etc.
Was it that you were being paid by an organization that Eliezer founded and had very strong influence over? Etc.?
No, I took being paid as more obligation to not defer.
Anyway, I’m banning you from my posts due to grossly negligent reading comprehension.
The grandparent explains why Dai was confused about your authorial intent, and his comment at the top of the thread is sitting at 31 karma in 15 votes, suggesting that other readers found Dai’s engagement valuable. If that’s grossly negligent reading comprehension, then would you prefer to just not have readers? That is, it seems strange to be counting down from “smart commenters interpret my words in the way I want them to be interpreted” rather than up from “no one reads or comments on my work.”
suggesting that other readers found Dai’s engagement valuable
This may not be a valid inference, or your update may be too strong, given that my comment got a strong upvote early or immediately, which caused it to land in the Popular Comments section of the front page, where others may have further upvoted it in a decontextualized way.
It looks like I’m not actually banned yet, but will disengage for now to respect Tsvi’s wishes/feelings. Thought I should correct the record on the above first, as I’m probably the only person who could (due to seeing the strong upvote and the resulting position in Popular Comments).
I have banned you from my posts, but my guess is that you’re still allowed to post on existing comment threads with you involved, or something like. I’m happy for you to comment on anything that the LW interface allows you to comment on. [ETA: actually I hadn’t hit “submit” on the ban; I’ve done that now, so Wei Dai might no longer be able to reply on this post at all.]
Possibly I’ll unban you some time in the future (not that anyone cares too much, I presume). But like, this comment thread is kinda wild from my perspective. My current understanding is that you “went down some line of questioning” based on a misunderstanding, but did not state what your line of questioning was and also ignored anything in my responses that wasn’t furthering your “line of questioning” including stuff that was correcting your misunderstanding. Which is pretty anti-helpful.
Ok, sure, that’s a good question, and also off-topic.
Yeah obviously. It’s literally impossible to not defer, all you get to pick is which things you invest in undeferring in what order. I’m exceptionally non-deferential but yeah obviously you have to defer about lots of things.
Yes it is also human nature to want to defer. E.g. that’s how you stay synched with your tribe on what stuff matters, how to act, etc.
No, I took being paid as more obligation to not defer.
Anyway, I’m banning you from my posts due to grossly negligent reading comprehension.
The grandparent explains why Dai was confused about your authorial intent, and his comment at the top of the thread is sitting at 31 karma in 15 votes, suggesting that other readers found Dai’s engagement valuable. If that’s grossly negligent reading comprehension, then would you prefer to just not have readers? That is, it seems strange to be counting down from “smart commenters interpret my words in the way I want them to be interpreted” rather than up from “no one reads or comments on my work.”
This may not be a valid inference, or your update may be too strong, given that my comment got a strong upvote early or immediately, which caused it to land in the Popular Comments section of the front page, where others may have further upvoted it in a decontextualized way.
It looks like I’m not actually banned yet, but will disengage for now to respect Tsvi’s wishes/feelings. Thought I should correct the record on the above first, as I’m probably the only person who could (due to seeing the strong upvote and the resulting position in Popular Comments).
I have banned you from my posts, but my guess is that you’re still allowed to post on existing comment threads with you involved, or something like. I’m happy for you to comment on anything that the LW interface allows you to comment on. [ETA: actually I hadn’t hit “submit” on the ban; I’ve done that now, so Wei Dai might no longer be able to reply on this post at all.]
Possibly I’ll unban you some time in the future (not that anyone cares too much, I presume). But like, this comment thread is kinda wild from my perspective. My current understanding is that you “went down some line of questioning” based on a misunderstanding, but did not state what your line of questioning was and also ignored anything in my responses that wasn’t furthering your “line of questioning” including stuff that was correcting your misunderstanding. Which is pretty anti-helpful.
Did you read the whole comment thread?