You know that line about judging people by their actions rather than their words? What about people whose only non-trivial output is words? (assume their actions are boringly uncontroversial, like say living basic middle class life funded by job at paper factory) Here’s a way.
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Judge them by topics rather than methods of thought. The thinker’s equivalent of action is choice of topic. Almost always, all the real risk is there (but CRUCIALLY may not be borne by the thinker). Methodology (analytical, empirical, logical, narrative, metaphoric) is secondary
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@robinhanson if you want to understand why people consistently get upset at you, I think this thread nails the core of it.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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Are you aware that this is the motivating context? http://www.overcomingbias.com/2018/12/metoo-in-a-star-is-born.html …
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I don't think the context helps Robin. There is still very too much moral hazard in how casually you're approaching this. This is not a case I would attempt to make based on twitter polls for example. I'd only feel comfortable if I leveled up to a properly designed survey.
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If it is okay for people to express their individual opinions, I don't see why it is worse to collect 1000 folks opinions and express those. I don't see the "moral hazard" of asking why people aren't bothered by A Star is Born.
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a good preference falsification regime requires suppression of signals of the distribution of public sentiment I bet
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