FWIW, while this isn’t steelmanning, this recent comment of yours seems to be doing the general motion I’m trying to point to here, of which steelmanning is a subset: you point out a flaw in someone’s argument, while acknowledging the underlying problem they’re trying to solve, and then contribute additional possible solutions. Constructive criticism rather than destructive.
(This is not me necessarily endorsing your solution in that comment, since it’s a complicated domain and I haven’t thought about it thoroughly myself, but the comment is structured in a way that helps other people who join the discussion continue to operate in a “help figure out something useful rather than attack each other.”)
FWIW, while this isn’t steelmanning, this recent comment of yours seems to be doing the general motion I’m trying to point to here, of which steelmanning is a subset: you point out a flaw in someone’s argument, while acknowledging the underlying problem they’re trying to solve, and then contribute additional possible solutions. Constructive criticism rather than destructive.
(This is not me necessarily endorsing your solution in that comment, since it’s a complicated domain and I haven’t thought about it thoroughly myself, but the comment is structured in a way that helps other people who join the discussion continue to operate in a “help figure out something useful rather than attack each other.”)