re: discussing criticism—I’d love to see tools to help refer back to previous discussions of criticism and request clarification of the difference. Though of course this can be an unhelpful thought-stopper, I think more often than not it’s simply context retrieval and helps the new criticism clarify its additions. (“paper does not clarify contributions”?)
A thing I’m finding difficult at the moment is that criticism just isn’t really indexed in a consistent way, because, well, everyone has subtly different frames on what they’re criticizing and why.
It’s possible there should be, like, 3 major FAQs that just try to be a comprehensive index on frequent disagreements people have with LW consensus, and people who want to argue about it are directed there to leave comments, and maybe over time the FAQ becomes even more comprehensive. It’s a lot of work, might be worth it anyway
(I’m imagining such an FAQ mostly linking to external posts rather than answering everything itself)
re: discussing criticism—I’d love to see tools to help refer back to previous discussions of criticism and request clarification of the difference. Though of course this can be an unhelpful thought-stopper, I think more often than not it’s simply context retrieval and helps the new criticism clarify its additions. (“paper does not clarify contributions”?)
A thing I’m finding difficult at the moment is that criticism just isn’t really indexed in a consistent way, because, well, everyone has subtly different frames on what they’re criticizing and why.
It’s possible there should be, like, 3 major FAQs that just try to be a comprehensive index on frequent disagreements people have with LW consensus, and people who want to argue about it are directed there to leave comments, and maybe over time the FAQ becomes even more comprehensive. It’s a lot of work, might be worth it anyway
(I’m imagining such an FAQ mostly linking to external posts rather than answering everything itself)