The community believes there are ways of thinking, that if you figure them out and adopt them, you can become a person who systematically arrives at true beliefs and good decisions more of the time than someone who didn’t adopt those ways of thinking.
What does it matter what the community believes? This phrasing is a bit self-defeating, deferring to community is not a way of thinking that helps with arriving at true beliefs and good decisions.
If you are joining a community and want to be accepted and welcomed, it matters what they believe, value, and are aiming to do. For that matter, knowing this might determine whether or not you want to be involved.
Or in other words, that line means to say “hey, this is what we’re about”
The phrasing is ambiguous between descriptive of this fact and prescriptive for it, especially for new people joining the community, which is the connotation I’m objecting to. It’s bad as an argument or way of thinking in connection with that sentence, the implication of its relevance in that particular sentence is incorrect. It’s not bad to know that it’s true, and it’s not bad that it’s true.
What does it matter what the community believes? This phrasing is a bit self-defeating, deferring to community is not a way of thinking that helps with arriving at true beliefs and good decisions.
Also, I think references to what distinguishes rationality from truth and other good things are useful in that section (these posts are not even in the original sequences).
If you are joining a community and want to be accepted and welcomed, it matters what they believe, value, and are aiming to do. For that matter, knowing this might determine whether or not you want to be involved.
Or in other words, that line means to say “hey, this is what we’re about”
I do like those posts quite a fair bit. Will add.
The phrasing is ambiguous between descriptive of this fact and prescriptive for it, especially for new people joining the community, which is the connotation I’m objecting to. It’s bad as an argument or way of thinking in connection with that sentence, the implication of its relevance in that particular sentence is incorrect. It’s not bad to know that it’s true, and it’s not bad that it’s true.