In this post the criticizer gave the criticizee an opportunity to reply in-line in the published post—in effect, the criticizee was offered the last word. I thought that was super classy, and I’m proud to have stolen that idea on two occasions (1,2).
If anyone’s interested, the relevant part of my email was:
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You can leave google docs margin comments if you want, and:
If I’m just straight-up wrong about something, or putting words in your mouth, then I’ll just correct the text before publication.
If you are leave a google docs comment that’s more like a counter-argument, and I’m not immediately convinced, I’d probably copy what you wrote into an in-text reply box—just like the gray boxes here: [link] So you get to have the last word if you want, although I might still re-reply in the comments.
You can also / alternatively obviously leave comments on the published lesswrong post like normal.
If you would like to leave pre-publication feedback, but don’t expect to get around to it “soon” (say, the next 3 weeks), let me know and I’ll hold off publication.
(In the LW/EAF post editor, the inline reply-boxes are secretly just 1×1 tables.)
Another super classy move was I wrote a criticism post once, and the person I criticized retweeted it. (Without even dunking on it!) (The classy person here was Robin Hanson.) I’m proud to say that I’ve stolen that one too, although I guess not every time.
In this post the criticizer gave the criticizee an opportunity to reply in-line in the published post—in effect, the criticizee was offered the last word. I thought that was super classy, and I’m proud to have stolen that idea on two occasions (1,2).
If anyone’s interested, the relevant part of my email was:
(In the LW/EAF post editor, the inline reply-boxes are secretly just 1×1 tables.)
Another super classy move was I wrote a criticism post once, and the person I criticized retweeted it. (Without even dunking on it!) (The classy person here was Robin Hanson.) I’m proud to say that I’ve stolen that one too, although I guess not every time.