(Aside: So, did I or didn’t I come across as unfriendly/hostile? I never suggested that you said that, only that maybe it was true. This matters because I genuinely worry that I did & am thinking about being more cautious in the future as a result.)
So, given that I wanted to do both 1 and 2, would you think it would have been fine if I had just made them as separate comments, instead of mentioning 1 in passing in the thread on 2? Or do you think I really should have picked one to do and not done both?
The thing about changing my mind also resonates—that definitely happened to some extent during this conversation, because (as mentioned above) I didn’t realize Nuno was talking about people who put lots of probability mass on the evolution anchor. For those people, a shift up or down by a couple OOMs really matters, and so the BOTEC I did about how probably the environment can be simulated for less than 10^41 flops needs to be held to a higher standard of scrutiny & could end up being judged insufficient.
So, did I or didn’t I come across as unfriendly/hostile?
You didn’t to me, but also (a) I know you in person and (b) I’m generally pretty happy to be in forceful arguments and don’t interpret them as unfriendly / hostile, while other people plausibly would (see also combat culture). So really I think I’m the wrong person to ask.
So, given that I wanted to do both 1 and 2, would you think it would have been fine if I had just made them as separate comments, instead of mentioning 1 in passing in the thread on 2? Or do you think I really should have picked one to do and not done both?
I think you can do both, if it’s clear that you’re doing these as two separate things. (Which could be by having two different comments, or by signposting clearly in a single comment.)
In this particular situation I’m objecting to starting with (2), then switching to (1) after a critique without acknowledging that you had updated on (2) and so were going to (1) instead. When I see that behavior from a random Internet commenter I’m like “ah, you are one of the people who rationalizes reasons for beliefs, and so your beliefs do not respond to evidence, I will stop talking with you now”. You want to distinguish yourself from the random Internet commenter.
(And if you hadn’t updated on (2), then my objection would have been “you are bad at collaborative truth-seeking, you started to engage on one node and then you jumped to a totally different node before you had converged on that one node, you’ll never make progress this way”.)
Something about your characterization of what happened continues to feel unfair & inaccurate to me, but there’s definitely truth in it & I think your advice is good so I will stop arguing & accept the criticism & try to remember it going forward. :)
Thanks for this thoughtful explanation & model.
(Aside: So, did I or didn’t I come across as unfriendly/hostile? I never suggested that you said that, only that maybe it was true. This matters because I genuinely worry that I did & am thinking about being more cautious in the future as a result.)
So, given that I wanted to do both 1 and 2, would you think it would have been fine if I had just made them as separate comments, instead of mentioning 1 in passing in the thread on 2? Or do you think I really should have picked one to do and not done both?
The thing about changing my mind also resonates—that definitely happened to some extent during this conversation, because (as mentioned above) I didn’t realize Nuno was talking about people who put lots of probability mass on the evolution anchor. For those people, a shift up or down by a couple OOMs really matters, and so the BOTEC I did about how probably the environment can be simulated for less than 10^41 flops needs to be held to a higher standard of scrutiny & could end up being judged insufficient.
You didn’t to me, but also (a) I know you in person and (b) I’m generally pretty happy to be in forceful arguments and don’t interpret them as unfriendly / hostile, while other people plausibly would (see also combat culture). So really I think I’m the wrong person to ask.
I think you can do both, if it’s clear that you’re doing these as two separate things. (Which could be by having two different comments, or by signposting clearly in a single comment.)
In this particular situation I’m objecting to starting with (2), then switching to (1) after a critique without acknowledging that you had updated on (2) and so were going to (1) instead. When I see that behavior from a random Internet commenter I’m like “ah, you are one of the people who rationalizes reasons for beliefs, and so your beliefs do not respond to evidence, I will stop talking with you now”. You want to distinguish yourself from the random Internet commenter.
(And if you hadn’t updated on (2), then my objection would have been “you are bad at collaborative truth-seeking, you started to engage on one node and then you jumped to a totally different node before you had converged on that one node, you’ll never make progress this way”.)
OK. I’ll DM Nuno.
Something about your characterization of what happened continues to feel unfair & inaccurate to me, but there’s definitely truth in it & I think your advice is good so I will stop arguing & accept the criticism & try to remember it going forward. :)