+[TODO: SECTION on Ben's thinking about ostracisim
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+Ben thought I was being too charitable by describing the bullshit nitpicking as non-ostracism-threatening.
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+A deluge of motivated nitpicking is an implied marginalization threat. The game people are playing when they do that, he explained, is forcing me to choose between doing arbitarily large amounts of interpretive labor, or being cast as never having answered these construed-as-reasonablee objections, and therefore over time
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+ * I was inclined to meet the objections, to say, "well, I guess I need to write faster and more clearly" rather than "you're dishonestly demanding arbitrarily large amounts of interpretive labor from me"; by meeting the objections I become a stronger writer
+ * Ben thought that being a better writer by responding to nitpicks from people who are trying not to understand was a boring goal; it would be a better use of my talents to explain how people were failing to engage, rather than continuing to press the object-level itself—like, I had a model of "the rationalists" that keeps making bad predictions, what's going on there?
+ * I guess I'm only now, years later, taking Ben's advice on this. Sorry, Ben.