I would have thought you’d prefer that I avoid trying to apply the philosophy idea to a detailed object-level special case (specifically, that of this website) in the comment section of a Frontpaged post (as a opposed to a lower-visibility meta post or private conversation)?? (Maybe this is another illustration of Wei’s point that our traditional norms just end up encouraging hidden agendas.)
OP is trying to convey a philosophical idea (which could be wrong, and whose wrongness would reflect poorly on me, although I think not very poorly, quantitatively speaking) about “true maps as a Schelling point.” (You can see a prelude to this in the last paragraph of a comment of mine from two months ago.)
I would have thought you’d prefer that I avoid trying to apply the philosophy idea to a detailed object-level special case (specifically, that of this website) in the comment section of a Frontpaged post (as a opposed to a lower-visibility meta post or private conversation)?? (Maybe this is another illustration of Wei’s point that our traditional norms just end up encouraging hidden agendas.)
I replied with some meta-thoughts about my uncertainties and best guesses about current norms over here on shortform.