This is exciting, I’m optimistic that digesting the formalisms here will help me.
Ideally I’d like to think about obligations or burdens as it relates to epistemic diversity, primarily a group’s obligation to seek out quality dissent. I’ve recently been deciding that echo chamber risks are actually a lot less bad than the damage I’ve taken from awareness of what unsophisticated critics are up to. This awareness has made me less magnanimous, enthusiastic about cooperation, etc. To what extent is it my burden to protect my attention better, and to what extent is it the critic’s burden to be more sophisticated? The former seems fraught: any heuristic would most likely be an operationalization of parochial preferences or cultural baggage, or I’d have no way of being sure it’s not. The latter seems fraught: it’s out of my control.
This is related to the hugboxing problem, even though I think that post was about how taking unsophisticated lines of attack seriously underserves the critic, and I’m talking about how it underserves us.
This is exciting, I’m optimistic that digesting the formalisms here will help me.
Ideally I’d like to think about obligations or burdens as it relates to epistemic diversity, primarily a group’s obligation to seek out quality dissent. I’ve recently been deciding that echo chamber risks are actually a lot less bad than the damage I’ve taken from awareness of what unsophisticated critics are up to. This awareness has made me less magnanimous, enthusiastic about cooperation, etc. To what extent is it my burden to protect my attention better, and to what extent is it the critic’s burden to be more sophisticated? The former seems fraught: any heuristic would most likely be an operationalization of parochial preferences or cultural baggage, or I’d have no way of being sure it’s not. The latter seems fraught: it’s out of my control.
This is related to the hugboxing problem, even though I think that post was about how taking unsophisticated lines of attack seriously underserves the critic, and I’m talking about how it underserves us.