Hey, no need to apologize, and besides I wasn’t even expecting a reply since I didn’t ask a question.
Your points 1 and 2 are good. I should have clarified what I meant by “people.” I didn’t mean everyone, I guess I meant something like “Most of the people who are likely to read this.” But maybe I should be less extreme, as you mentioned, and exclude people who satisfy 1a+1b. Fair enough.
Re point 2: Yeah. I think your post is good; explicitly thinking about and working through feelings & biases etc. is an important complement to object-level thinking about a topic. I guess I was coming from a place of frustration with the way meta-level stuff seems to get more attention/clicks/discussion on forums like this, than object-level analysis. At least that’s how it seems to me. But on reflection I’m not sure my impression is correct; I feel like the ideal ratio of object level to meta stuff should be 9:1 or so, and I haven’t bothered to check maybe we aren’t that far off on this forum (on the subject of timelines).
Hey, no need to apologize, and besides I wasn’t even expecting a reply since I didn’t ask a question.
Your points 1 and 2 are good. I should have clarified what I meant by “people.” I didn’t mean everyone, I guess I meant something like “Most of the people who are likely to read this.” But maybe I should be less extreme, as you mentioned, and exclude people who satisfy 1a+1b. Fair enough.
Re point 2: Yeah. I think your post is good; explicitly thinking about and working through feelings & biases etc. is an important complement to object-level thinking about a topic. I guess I was coming from a place of frustration with the way meta-level stuff seems to get more attention/clicks/discussion on forums like this, than object-level analysis. At least that’s how it seems to me. But on reflection I’m not sure my impression is correct; I feel like the ideal ratio of object level to meta stuff should be 9:1 or so, and I haven’t bothered to check maybe we aren’t that far off on this forum (on the subject of timelines).