I do agree that there’s often a useful intermediate step for escaping the false dichotomy that’s something like “do both A and ¬A.” And then, once you have experiential data of each, you can see the ways that the A/¬A dichotomy was fake and not helpful.
But also I worry about people seeing sentiments like the one immediately above, and doing a fallacy-of-the-gray thing, and thinking it means something like “precision doesn’t matter.”
Precision (and similar stuff) does matter! It’s just not the enemy of the-thing-being-called-goo.
Precision (and similar stuff) does matter! It’s just not the enemy of the-thing-being-called-goo.
Well… in practice it kind of is.
There’s totally a thing where a focus on precision can result in people precluding “goo” and actively attacking attempts to communicate in gooish.
I mean, this is basically what “normies” find annoying about autistic people.
It doesn’t have to be this way. I totally agree, precision totally matters. There’s a kind of flow between precision and “goo” that seems vastly more functional and fun than either one alone. They can support one another super well.
But to say that precision isn’t the enemy of the-thing-being-called-goo seems like it’s glossing over a real sociological thing.
I do agree that there’s often a useful intermediate step for escaping the false dichotomy that’s something like “do both A and ¬A.” And then, once you have experiential data of each, you can see the ways that the A/¬A dichotomy was fake and not helpful.
But also I worry about people seeing sentiments like the one immediately above, and doing a fallacy-of-the-gray thing, and thinking it means something like “precision doesn’t matter.”
Precision (and similar stuff) does matter! It’s just not the enemy of the-thing-being-called-goo.
Well… in practice it kind of is.
There’s totally a thing where a focus on precision can result in people precluding “goo” and actively attacking attempts to communicate in gooish.
I mean, this is basically what “normies” find annoying about autistic people.
It doesn’t have to be this way. I totally agree, precision totally matters. There’s a kind of flow between precision and “goo” that seems vastly more functional and fun than either one alone. They can support one another super well.
But to say that precision isn’t the enemy of the-thing-being-called-goo seems like it’s glossing over a real sociological thing.
Well, to be precise, I said a compound thing which included:
… so I don’t think I fully glossed it over. =P