On a personal note, the past few days have been pretty tough for me. I noticed I took the negative feedback pretty hard.
I hope we have demonstrated that we are acting in good faith, willing to update and engage rigorously with feedback and criticism, but some of the comments made me feel like people thought we were trying to be deceptive or mislead people. It’s pretty difficult to take that in when it’s so far from our intentions.
We try not to let the fact that our posts are anonymous mean we can say things that aren’t as rigorous, but sometimes it feels like people don’t realize that we are people too. I think comments might be phrased differently if we weren’t anonymous.
I think it’s especially hard when this post has taken many weekends to complete, and we’ve invested several hours this week in engaging with comments, which is a tough trade off against other projects.
I want to say I really sympathize with your feelings you’ve expressed. I really get the sense when reading your writing that you’re trying to do the EA thing, and I can’t help but love that.
I also want to express some appreciation for what you are doing. I am really glad to see this series being posted and I think it is generating a lot of useful conversation. <3
I wouldn’t take the negative feedback too seriously, people can get tribal about topics like this and by my lights the quality of arguments they presented seemed low.
(personal, emotional reflection)
On a personal note, the past few days have been pretty tough for me. I noticed I took the negative feedback pretty hard.
I hope we have demonstrated that we are acting in good faith, willing to update and engage rigorously with feedback and criticism, but some of the comments made me feel like people thought we were trying to be deceptive or mislead people. It’s pretty difficult to take that in when it’s so far from our intentions.
We try not to let the fact that our posts are anonymous mean we can say things that aren’t as rigorous, but sometimes it feels like people don’t realize that we are people too. I think comments might be phrased differently if we weren’t anonymous.
I think it’s especially hard when this post has taken many weekends to complete, and we’ve invested several hours this week in engaging with comments, which is a tough trade off against other projects.
I want to say I really sympathize with your feelings you’ve expressed. I really get the sense when reading your writing that you’re trying to do the EA thing, and I can’t help but love that.
I also want to express some appreciation for what you are doing. I am really glad to see this series being posted and I think it is generating a lot of useful conversation. <3
I wouldn’t take the negative feedback too seriously, people can get tribal about topics like this and by my lights the quality of arguments they presented seemed low.
I really liked and appreciated both of your posts. Please keep writing them, and I hope that future feedback will be less sharp.