On Thu, 27 Jun 2019 at 16:30, Kevin A. McGrail <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 6/27/2019 10:11 AM, Naomi S wrote: > > I would say, that's a ridiculous argument. end of discussion > > To whit, I would point out two things: > > 1) calling for end of discussions seems to be bad form on this forum :-) > it would be the end of the discussion because once you say "we do it like that because that's how we do it" there is nothing more left to debate. you may as well say we do it like that because God says so the folks on LessWrong call this a "semantic stopsign" https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FWMfQKG3RpZx6irjm/semantic-stopsigns > 2) Jim is one of the original founders and hence uniquely suited to > answer the why. Recommend you reach out to the other founders. I have asked on the list a bunch of times, and the only justification I've had that isn't "just because" boils down to neutrality. which I have already addressed today on this thread we're going in circles and it isn't fun
