I may be influenced by the Less Wrong side of things, but in my experience “They make the reader feel awful cognitive dissonance and make them question their views” is a factor that leads to a lot of upvotes. But maybe there are different types of updating, one that make the person feel virtuous about updating and one that make them feel bad about having been wrong. If there is, then I haven’t found any pattern behind them.
Btw., jerk opinions 1–3 seem defensible to me, 4 with more modest phrasing, but I’d be really curious about any arguments someone could come up with in defense of 5 and 6. But: Rob and other people who, I suspect, know a bunch of things I don’t seem to be interestingly careful about what gets published in this forum, so this is probably something we should rather chitchat about at our local meetup. I just read about how newspaper reports on suicides seem to actually cause suicides, so this virtue of silence thing is not to be taken lightly.
I may be influenced by the Less Wrong side of things, but in my experience “They make the reader feel awful cognitive dissonance and make them question their views” is a factor that leads to a lot of upvotes. But maybe there are different types of updating, one that make the person feel virtuous about updating and one that make them feel bad about having been wrong. If there is, then I haven’t found any pattern behind them.
Btw., jerk opinions 1–3 seem defensible to me, 4 with more modest phrasing, but I’d be really curious about any arguments someone could come up with in defense of 5 and 6. But: Rob and other people who, I suspect, know a bunch of things I don’t seem to be interestingly careful about what gets published in this forum, so this is probably something we should rather chitchat about at our local meetup. I just read about how newspaper reports on suicides seem to actually cause suicides, so this virtue of silence thing is not to be taken lightly.