The series of seemingly elementary errors in Jacob’s recent comments, which were puzzling to me given his obviously high level of reasoning abilities. I tried to point them out in my earlier comments and don’t want to repeat them all again, but for example, his insistent defense/support of Khorton’s downvote based on his own very mild interpretation of what a downvote means, when it seems clear that what’s more important in judging the consequences and appropriateness of the downvote is how Khorton, Dale, and most other EAF participants are likely to understand it, and then ignoring my arguments and evidence around this after I pointed them out to him.
Thanks for explaining. I don’t wish to engage further here [feel free to reply though of course], but FWIW I don’t agree that there are any reasoning errors in Jacob’s post or any anomalies to explain. I think you are strongly focused on a part of the conversation that is of particular importance to you (something along the lines of whether people who are not motivated or skilled at expressing sympathy will be welcome here), while Jacob is mostly focused on other aspects.
I think you are strongly focused on a part of the conversation that is of particular importance to you (something along the lines of whether people who are not motivated or skilled at expressing sympathy will be welcome here), while Jacob is mostly focused on other aspects.
This seems clearly true to me, but I don’t see how it explains the things that I’m puzzled by. I will stop here as well, as my previous comment answering your question was downvoted to negative karma, perhaps indicating that such discussion (or my specific way of discussing it) is not appropriate for this forum.
The series of seemingly elementary errors in Jacob’s recent comments, which were puzzling to me given his obviously high level of reasoning abilities. I tried to point them out in my earlier comments and don’t want to repeat them all again, but for example, his insistent defense/support of Khorton’s downvote based on his own very mild interpretation of what a downvote means, when it seems clear that what’s more important in judging the consequences and appropriateness of the downvote is how Khorton, Dale, and most other EAF participants are likely to understand it, and then ignoring my arguments and evidence around this after I pointed them out to him.
Thanks for explaining. I don’t wish to engage further here [feel free to reply though of course], but FWIW I don’t agree that there are any reasoning errors in Jacob’s post or any anomalies to explain. I think you are strongly focused on a part of the conversation that is of particular importance to you (something along the lines of whether people who are not motivated or skilled at expressing sympathy will be welcome here), while Jacob is mostly focused on other aspects.
This seems clearly true to me, but I don’t see how it explains the things that I’m puzzled by. I will stop here as well, as my previous comment answering your question was downvoted to negative karma, perhaps indicating that such discussion (or my specific way of discussing it) is not appropriate for this forum.
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