I’m still figuring out how I want to engage on this forum; for now, I generally, tentatively prefer to not disclose personal information on here. I’d encourage readers to conservatively assume I have conflicts of interest, and to assess my comments and posts based on their merits. (My vague sense is that this is a common approach to this forum—common enough that non-disclosure doesn’t imply an absence of conflicts of interest—but maybe I’ve misread? I’m not confident about the approach I’m taking—feel free to message me on this forum if you’d like to discuss this further.)
On your other point, I agree that suspicion toward self-regulation is often warranted; I think my earlier point was sufficiently hedged (“plausible”; “some”) to be compatible with such suspicion.
I’m still figuring out how I want to engage on this forum; for now, I generally, tentatively prefer to not disclose personal information on here. I’d encourage readers to conservatively assume I have conflicts of interest, and to assess my comments and posts based on their merits. (My vague sense is that this is a common approach to this forum—common enough that non-disclosure doesn’t imply an absence of conflicts of interest—but maybe I’ve misread? I’m not confident about the approach I’m taking—feel free to message me on this forum if you’d like to discuss this further.)
On your other point, I agree that suspicion toward self-regulation is often warranted; I think my earlier point was sufficiently hedged (“plausible”; “some”) to be compatible with such suspicion.