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My example was getting too wordy, and I tried to delete it. The mobile editor assured me that it had been done, but it had not. I've separately submitted a fixed version of this comment.

If you publicly report your "by-my-lights" credences but act according to your "all-things-considered" credences, I would think that that would leave you open to people deciding that you're not accurately reporting your true beliefs, or conversely that you're not very good at acting on your professed beliefs.

So I guess you have to always report both together, or at least include a link to this article when reporting "by-my-lights" beliefs.

If you publicly report your "by-my-lights" credences but act according to your "all-things-considered" credences, I would think that that would leave you open to people deciding that you're not accurately reporting your true beliefs, or conversely that you're not very good at acting on your professed beliefs.

So I guess you have to always report both together, or at least include a link to this article when reporting "by-my-lights" beliefs.

So I guess you have to always report both together, or at least include a link... (read more)

1Ezra6y
My example was getting too wordy, and I tried to delete it. The mobile editor assured me that it had been done, but it had not. I've separately submitted a fixed version of this comment.

Would it be useful for me to report things which seem to me to be typos?

Thanks for the more convenient workaround. That'll help when I do manage to compose a comment.

This has been an experiment in

  • writing a post on LW 2

  • Writing with the LW 2 mobile editor

Verdict: the mobile editor is very painful, but setting the editor aside, the actual posting process is pleasant enough.

There's no way to access the submit comment button in portrait on mobile. Workaround: landscape.

2habryka6y
Yeah, I need to rework the mobile editor sometime soon. It's one of the most common complaints we get.
3AndHisHorse6y
I've been able to get to the "Submit Comment" button on mobile in portrait (by tapping elsewhere to exit the editor before doing so), but my problem has been that the text box tends to lose all my progress oh, every other character or so. As a result, this comment has been copied and pasted from Google Keep.

I was surprised and pleased to discover that the rock band Switchfoot have a song about the terrible cost to oneself of treating one's arguments as soldiers. It's called "The Sound in My Mouth". (Youtube link, with incorrect lyrics below it; better ones can be found at the bottom of this fansite page)

It focuses on the social costs rather than the truth-finding costs, but it's still well ahead of where I usually expect to find music.

0TheNuszAbides10y
to save those who would bother to trouble themselves as i just did... the trouble, the second link is for the album Oh! Gravity but "The Sound in My Mouth" is on the Oh! EP.

"Perhaps the demographic collapse of advanced societies happens because the market supplies ever-more-tempting alternatives to having children, while the attractiveness of changing diapers remains constant over time."

The attractiveness of changing diapers does not remain constant over time. Modern diapers have little sticky tape on, and can be thrown out after a single use. Much better than washing cloth diapers and pricking yourself (or the baby!) attaching them.

For now, diapers remain a stinky mess. But we may yet invent a baby-washing, diaper-changing machine, without a sense of smell.
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