I think this relies on “Val is not successfully communicating with the reader” being for reasons analogous to “Val is speaking English which the store clerk doesn’t, or only speaks it poorly”. But I suspect that if we unpacked what’s going on, I wouldn’t think that analogy held, and I would still think that what you’re doing seems bad.
(Also, I want to flag that “justify that we’re helping the clerk deepen their skill with interfacing with the modern world” doesn’t pattern match to anything I said. It hints at pattern matching with me saying something like “part of why we should speak with epistemic rigor is to help people hear things with epistemic rigor”, but I didn’t say that. You didn’t say that I did, and maybe the hint wasn’t intentional on your part, but I wanted to flag it anyway.)
I think this relies on “Val is not successfully communicating with the reader” being for reasons analogous to “Val is speaking English which the store clerk doesn’t, or only speaks it poorly”. But I suspect that if we unpacked what’s going on, I wouldn’t think that analogy held, and I would still think that what you’re doing seems bad.
(Also, I want to flag that “justify that we’re helping the clerk deepen their skill with interfacing with the modern world” doesn’t pattern match to anything I said. It hints at pattern matching with me saying something like “part of why we should speak with epistemic rigor is to help people hear things with epistemic rigor”, but I didn’t say that. You didn’t say that I did, and maybe the hint wasn’t intentional on your part, but I wanted to flag it anyway.)