(1) I am pretty into people criticising orgs/people when the author really cares about ‘truth-seeking’.
(2) I wrote my comment from the perspective that you weren’t trying to make a point about Atlas with your post and were instead trying to ask a ‘genuine’ question. I am pretty into people being able to work out why people run their projects the way they do—and I think a good way of doing this is just asking them directly.
It seems like you are trying to sound like you are doing (2) but actually doing something like (1) - which means you don’t really fulfil the ‘truth-seeking’ criteria (for me) that would have made me excited about your post.
If someone’s actions are truth-seeking, they are trying to actually work out what is true as opposed to trying to defend their current beliefs or ‘win’ an argument. It is pretty linked to the scout mindset. It’s plausible that others use this term differently—but afaik this isn’t an unusual way of using it.
I think that you didn’t exhibit this quality well in your post (e.g. you open by claiming that you are trying to answer a narrow question whilst writing a critique of the Atlas program) and this can get in the way of good discourse. I do think there were good things about the post and I think there’s a version of this post with most of the main points that I would have really liked.
(1) I am pretty into people criticising orgs/people when the author really cares about ‘truth-seeking’.
(2) I wrote my comment from the perspective that you weren’t trying to make a point about Atlas with your post and were instead trying to ask a ‘genuine’ question. I am pretty into people being able to work out why people run their projects the way they do—and I think a good way of doing this is just asking them directly.
It seems like you are trying to sound like you are doing (2) but actually doing something like (1) - which means you don’t really fulfil the ‘truth-seeking’ criteria (for me) that would have made me excited about your post.
What is the ‘truth-seeking’ criteria for you?
I find this to be a term that seems thrown so much that it begins to lose all meaning.
If someone’s actions are truth-seeking, they are trying to actually work out what is true as opposed to trying to defend their current beliefs or ‘win’ an argument. It is pretty linked to the scout mindset. It’s plausible that others use this term differently—but afaik this isn’t an unusual way of using it.
I think that you didn’t exhibit this quality well in your post (e.g. you open by claiming that you are trying to answer a narrow question whilst writing a critique of the Atlas program) and this can get in the way of good discourse. I do think there were good things about the post and I think there’s a version of this post with most of the main points that I would have really liked.