My takeaway is that you’ve discovered there are bad actors who claim to support rationality and truth, but also blatantly lie and become political soldiers when it comes to trans issues. If this is true, why continue to engage with them? Why try to convince them with rationality on that same topic where you acknowledge that they are operating as soldiers instead of scouts?
If 2019-era “rationalists” were going to commit an epistemology mistake that interfered with my ability to think seriously about the most important thing in my life, and they couldn’t correct the mistake even after it was pointed out, then the “rationalists” were worse than useless to me.
You shouldn’t cling to the idea that the disagreement is due to a mistake when evidence suggests it’s a value conflict.
If this is true, why continue to engage with them? Why try to convince them with rationality on that same topic where you acknowledge that they are operating as soldiers instead of scouts?
I think the point is that Zack isn’t continuing to engage with them. Indeed, isn’t this post (and the whole series of which it is a part) basically an announcement that the engagement is at an end, and an explanation of why that is?
I’m too dumb to understand whether or not Zack’s post disclaims continued engagement. He continues to respond to proponents of the sort of transideology he writes about so he’s engaging at least that amount. Also just writing all this is a form of engagement.
My takeaway is that you’ve discovered there are bad actors who claim to support rationality and truth, but also blatantly lie and become political soldiers when it comes to trans issues. If this is true, why continue to engage with them? Why try to convince them with rationality on that same topic where you acknowledge that they are operating as soldiers instead of scouts?
You shouldn’t cling to the idea that the disagreement is due to a mistake when evidence suggests it’s a value conflict.
I think the point is that Zack isn’t continuing to engage with them. Indeed, isn’t this post (and the whole series of which it is a part) basically an announcement that the engagement is at an end, and an explanation of why that is?
I’m too dumb to understand whether or not Zack’s post disclaims continued engagement. He continues to respond to proponents of the sort of transideology he writes about so he’s engaging at least that amount. Also just writing all this is a form of engagement.