ChristianKl comments on How It Feels to Improve My Rationality - Less Wrong Discussion
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If you look at this thread you see that the first post I wrote was explicitely thanking him and far away from status-fight. With increased attempts of him to dodge debate, I used more strong language.
If that's the case than SIH should be criticized for not making it clear in his OP that he talks about simple situations. For me treating the OP as being about complex situations and noting it explicitely, is completely reasonable.
If he writes a vague post that doesn't make it clear whether he means complex or simply domains it's very reasonable for me to say: "I'm assuming you mean complex domains, and here's what follows from that..." That brings him in a discussion to clarify what he means if the assumption doesn't apply. I'm bringing the discussion forward by making that assumption. In this case he instead tried to dodge the debate.
[Before I say anything else, an entirely separate thing: I have consistently been typing your name as "ChristianKI" when in fact it's "ChristianKl" (the two are pixel-for-pixel identical on my screen, but others using different fonts may see the difference -- the wrong one has a capital eye at the end, the right one a lowercase ell). My apologies for getting your name wrong.]
OK, I agree. I'd either not read that one, or forgotten it (it was in a separate thread starting from a different top-level comment on SIH's post).
Maybe I'm missing something, but this doesn't look like an accurate description. The actual sequence appears to be (times as displayed to me by LW -- I'm not sure what it does about timezones):
"Seems" is a word to make the statement less strong.
The statement provides two productive ways for the discussion to continue:
a) He says that I misunderstand that he advocates hedgehog-style thinking. b) He defends hedgehog-style thinking as good.
Both of those alternatives lead the discussion to a more substantive place that's less vague. Not wanting to take either of those positions but instead criticizing the fact that there's an assumption is evasive.
You are certainly missing sent direct messages started by SIH.
Obviously I can't comment on any private messages between the two of you.