i was going to post in https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/curiosity-specialist-creators-with-small-audiences but i can’t find it now. guess it was deleted because the auto generator mistakenly created an unnecessary copy? i haven’t read through this thread yet. i was initially looking to post this in the i changed my mind thread but this fits better here after reading the article.
i think LMD was going in the right direction in the historicism thread getting to the same issue that i’m raising there but then stopped. asked three questions about your article, no reply, never posted in that thread again. you just acknowledged in #21 that there are multiple criteria and the analysis isn’t as clear-cut as the original article presented. LMD could have got you there months ago.
honest observation from my experience so far: it’s harder to have a productive back and forth with you than it usually is with people i discuss ideas with or even just people in general. there’s something about how the conversations go that’s hard to explain well. i think it reflects in how quiet the forum is unless it’s been unusually quiet since i joined. maybe it’s just a bandwidth issue. i don’t know if creating for an audience is a full time thing for you.
i pointed this out in the capitalism forum thread too that i almost stopped because your reply felt closed. i believe you when you say you didn’t mean it that way but it’s definitely an issue for this forum to work as an error correction system.
your article frames the problem as people not caring enough but what if some of them cared and just stopped trying? saying you outclass people at debate reinforces this. it tells the copilots they’re right to stay quiet.