Mass Gell-Mann amnesia effect because, say, I may look at others talking about my work or work I know closely, and say “wow! That’s wrong”, but look at others talking about work I don’t know closely and say “wow! That implies DOOM!” (like dreadfully wrong corruptions of the orthogonality thesis), and so decide to work on work that seems relevant to that DOOM?
Yeah, basically that. Even if those same people ultimately find much more convincing (or at least less obviously flawed) arguments, I still worry about the selection effects Nuno mentioned in his thread.
Mass Gell-Mann amnesia effect because, say, I may look at others talking about my work or work I know closely, and say “wow! That’s wrong”, but look at others talking about work I don’t know closely and say “wow! That implies DOOM!” (like dreadfully wrong corruptions of the orthogonality thesis), and so decide to work on work that seems relevant to that DOOM?
Yeah, basically that. Even if those same people ultimately find much more convincing (or at least less obviously flawed) arguments, I still worry about the selection effects Nuno mentioned in his thread.