You can just view a person’s profile and see their past posts. That way you can check quickly what side of a previous argument they argued.
Given that people can change their minds over time, and rationalists especially are likely to do so as data and evidence mounts, having a readily visible viewpoint-signature strikes me as a bad idea.
Offline of course, this happens all the time. For instance, if women are most likely to support X, so a female entering a debate is probably supporting X.
I’m not sure what you are responding to here. I don’t want to give people a label of non-foom believer or whatever. That would be one way of splitting people into groups but not the way I was thinking of.
You can just view a person’s profile and see their past posts. That way you can check quickly what side of a previous argument they argued.
Given that people can change their minds over time, and rationalists especially are likely to do so as data and evidence mounts, having a readily visible viewpoint-signature strikes me as a bad idea.
Offline of course, this happens all the time. For instance, if women are most likely to support X, so a female entering a debate is probably supporting X.
I’m not sure what you are responding to here. I don’t want to give people a label of non-foom believer or whatever. That would be one way of splitting people into groups but not the way I was thinking of.