With my writing style, I try to support a norm of writing directly and literally. I avoid adding value signals to convince readers I share their values, and as a reader I require no such signals of writers. overcomingbias.com/2018/05/skip-v
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That’s like a transparent-png strategy. You may need to actively neutralize the context in order to not inherit it sometimes.
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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.


