This updates me somewhat. I think your wording here works as “not courtroom evidence” or “not proof”, but bayesian evidence is sensitive to ratios even if that makes it a heuristic that almost works. also, frustration seems to me to be a fairly clear cost even if it’s a cost that must sometimes be paid; trying to reduce the range of circumstances where that cost must be paid seems like, in isolation, a worthy thing to try. the question would then be how that trades off, which is more complex. I expect that there are often small wording/communication things one can do to make incidental frustration less likely, by eg increasing clarity, being careful with emphasis, being careful to not include an interlocutor’s deep character as a target of criticism prematurely, otherwise minimizing effort needed by the interlocutor in order to understand, or other such things. it’s easy for me to imagine scenarios where someone with a real point is nevertheless causing a high rate of incidental frustration that is not necessary to make the point.
This updates me somewhat. I think your wording here works as “not courtroom evidence” or “not proof”, but bayesian evidence is sensitive to ratios even if that makes it a heuristic that almost works. also, frustration seems to me to be a fairly clear cost even if it’s a cost that must sometimes be paid; trying to reduce the range of circumstances where that cost must be paid seems like, in isolation, a worthy thing to try. the question would then be how that trades off, which is more complex. I expect that there are often small wording/communication things one can do to make incidental frustration less likely, by eg increasing clarity, being careful with emphasis, being careful to not include an interlocutor’s deep character as a target of criticism prematurely, otherwise minimizing effort needed by the interlocutor in order to understand, or other such things. it’s easy for me to imagine scenarios where someone with a real point is nevertheless causing a high rate of incidental frustration that is not necessary to make the point.