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#5472·Dennis HackethalOP, 1 day agoNo, they don’t need to look up every single idea beforehand. The kind of scenario I have in mind is more like recent discussions on X. Say you send someone links to resources that already address their argument preemptively. But then you can tell they flat out ignore those resources because next they ask questions or raise objections those resources already address as well. And they do this repeatedly. At some point it’s just patently irrational and no productive discussion is possible.
Long term, I do want to create a culture where people get in the habit of looking up the state of a discussion on V the same way they’d look up the meaning of a word in a dictionary. Users who’ve been told that can be held to that standard.
But even someone new to V should know to look up the state of a discussion they themself have participated in.
You say users who have been told about Veritula’s standard can be held to it. If Veritula becomes widely used, most new users will not initially be Popperians. They may understand “known to be false,” “objectively wrong,” and “rationally adoptable” in their ordinary senses rather than Veritula’s technical, fallibilist senses.
What must someone have been told and understood before they count as someone who “should know better”? Should the rule require clear notice about how Veritula uses these terms, and a chance to understand and criticise that epistemology, before someone’s off-platform statements can count as an offence?