If you already think he believes something for a reason you believe is wrong, you don’t have a very high opinion of his rationality.
If your goal is to improve, it’s more important to notice and correct errors than deceive people about their absence. I believe it’s insulting, not respectful, to attribute to a rationalist the attitude that they would prefer the knowledge of a flaw withheld.
(You might want to take a precaution of asking first if Crocker’s rules apply, and communicate the bug report privately.)
I’m very confused. I wasn’t talking about a bug report. Unless you mean bug in rationality.
Furthermore, I never attributed that attitude to JoshuaZ. JoshuaZ had no evidence that the flaw he proposed is wedrifid’s thinking. He’s just selecting one potential reason out of the whole set of potential reasons.
If your goal is to improve, it’s more important to notice and correct errors than deceive people about their absence. I believe it’s insulting, not respectful, to attribute to a rationalist the attitude that they would prefer the knowledge of a flaw withheld.
(You might want to take a precaution of asking first if Crocker’s rules apply, and communicate the bug report privately.)
I’m very confused. I wasn’t talking about a bug report. Unless you mean bug in rationality.
Furthermore, I never attributed that attitude to JoshuaZ. JoshuaZ had no evidence that the flaw he proposed is wedrifid’s thinking. He’s just selecting one potential reason out of the whole set of potential reasons.