Sorry, I think the key thing to evaluate is the counterfactual (like, I can say “I have a dispreference for food like this”, which means I would prefer other food more, while also not thinking it’s worth cooking completely new food, and would definitely prefer it over no food at all).
I think the post is net-positive compared to no post at all from Rethink, and I think the information is helpful.
I think it’s easy to improve the post by a lot by being more careful with words. I also separately think (even outside of situations like this, but even more so in this situation) that large co-authored “statements” have pretty broad distortionary effects and I think often say things that nobody really believes (by introducing a new, not clearly defined, “we”), and I have a longer-running policy to encourage people to use more “I” statements, so I do think there is a decently large negative component here.
Sorry, I think the key thing to evaluate is the counterfactual (like, I can say “I have a dispreference for food like this”, which means I would prefer other food more, while also not thinking it’s worth cooking completely new food, and would definitely prefer it over no food at all).
I think the post is net-positive compared to no post at all from Rethink, and I think the information is helpful.
I think it’s easy to improve the post by a lot by being more careful with words. I also separately think (even outside of situations like this, but even more so in this situation) that large co-authored “statements” have pretty broad distortionary effects and I think often say things that nobody really believes (by introducing a new, not clearly defined, “we”), and I have a longer-running policy to encourage people to use more “I” statements, so I do think there is a decently large negative component here.