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The question is who you are writing for. Arguably, Wittenstein's influence would have been less devastating if he had interacted with the context of philosophy of 1920, but it would take a lot away from the Tractatus, and likely make it irrelevant today.
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Counter argument: fiction epics are valuable precisely because they are so richly context-grounded (Homeric epics, Dante in Italian politics). Robin is arguing for a kind of veil-of-ignorance type stance. Good for legal due process. Not sure it works for open discourse.
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Basically I don’t think you can finesse what is effectively the AI frame problem with a naive closed-world-assumption in a normative form. It might lead to defensible discourses in a CYA sense, but not effective ones.
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In a public forum that choice is not yours to make unilaterally, so you have to accept risk of provoking violent reactions from people you may not want to engage, and possibly bear some responsibility for outcomes. Especially in all-have-stakes topics. Popularity is orthogonal.