Thanks for the observation. The idea was definitely not to say that promoting disasters is a pragmatic course of action, bur rather that disasters which inspire us to prevent future risks can be good. I hope that the first line of the post would clear up any potential confusion.
I’m pretty averse to making major changes to a post, but for the sake of preventing possible future confusion, I opted to change ‘Inspiring’ to ‘Inspirational’ in the title.
[Update: in response to some additional feedback, another update was made. See the first line of the post.]
I think the word “inspirational” isn’t ideal either, and in fact not very different from “inspiring”. And I think the title matters massively for the interpretation of an article. So I think you haven’t appropriately addressed David’s legitimate point. I wouldn’t use “inspiring”, “inspirational”, or similar words.
I agree that “inspirational” is still not optimal because of its positive connotation, but I think it is fair to say that stecas was trying to improve it and that the update successfully removed the possibility of understanding the title as a call to action (old title was something like “Cause Prioritization by Inspiring Disasters”, where “Inspiring” was meant as an adjective, but could be understood as a gerund).
Some ideas:
“A model of how preventing enduring catastrophes could backfire”
“Would a Utilitarian go back in time and prevent a cautionary catastrophe?”
“Cause Prioritizaion in light of cautionary disasters”
Thanks for the observation. The idea was definitely not to say that promoting disasters is a pragmatic course of action, bur rather that disasters which inspire us to prevent future risks can be good. I hope that the first line of the post would clear up any potential confusion.
I’m pretty averse to making major changes to a post, but for the sake of preventing possible future confusion, I opted to change ‘Inspiring’ to ‘Inspirational’ in the title.
[Update: in response to some additional feedback, another update was made. See the first line of the post.]
I think the word “inspirational” isn’t ideal either, and in fact not very different from “inspiring”. And I think the title matters massively for the interpretation of an article. So I think you haven’t appropriately addressed David’s legitimate point. I wouldn’t use “inspiring”, “inspirational”, or similar words.
I agree that “inspirational” is still not optimal because of its positive connotation, but I think it is fair to say that stecas was trying to improve it and that the update successfully removed the possibility of understanding the title as a call to action (old title was something like “Cause Prioritization by Inspiring Disasters”, where “Inspiring” was meant as an adjective, but could be understood as a gerund).
Some ideas:
“A model of how preventing enduring catastrophes could backfire”
“Would a Utilitarian go back in time and prevent a cautionary catastrophe?”
“Cause Prioritizaion in light of cautionary disasters”