Hi Andrew, welcome to the forum! I am keenly interested in this subject—I am one of the commentators you mentioned and have written on the subject previously (Towards non-meat diets for domesticated dogs).
Without getting to much into the specifics here, I wish to gently counsel you on EA forum norms in a way that might help the message go down better for readers.
We generally assume good intent. It is true that I am not persuaded by some elements of your analysis, which is why I stated a preference for the Alexander et al. estimation methods, but I would not describe that disagreement as “seeking to undermine [your] studies.” My disagreement is not coming from a place of malice.
We generally do not use maximalist language to describe each other’s perceived mistakes, e.g. “profoundly misrepresents,” “dramatically incorrect,” etc. Instead it is more in line with how we talk to say “This is mistaken” or “this is not what I intended.”
We tend to address each other by name/username and use tags—by all means please call me Seth rather than “a commentator” 😃
Hi Andrew, welcome to the forum! I am keenly interested in this subject—I am one of the commentators you mentioned and have written on the subject previously (Towards non-meat diets for domesticated dogs).
Without getting to much into the specifics here, I wish to gently counsel you on EA forum norms in a way that might help the message go down better for readers.
We generally assume good intent. It is true that I am not persuaded by some elements of your analysis, which is why I stated a preference for the Alexander et al. estimation methods, but I would not describe that disagreement as “seeking to undermine [your] studies.” My disagreement is not coming from a place of malice.
We generally do not use maximalist language to describe each other’s perceived mistakes, e.g. “profoundly misrepresents,” “dramatically incorrect,” etc. Instead it is more in line with how we talk to say “This is mistaken” or “this is not what I intended.”
We tend to address each other by name/username and use tags—by all means please call me Seth rather than “a commentator” 😃
Anyway, looking forward to more engagement,
Plus one to this message on norms, as another of the commentators. Welcome to the forum, Andrew, thanks for being willing to discuss your piece
This is addressed in my most recent post. Good intent certainly was not evident in strong, negative and false comments I responded to.