Activity
#5622·Jad Elmourad, about 4 hours agoBut why not raise that before agreeing to a rule he took issue with? Why accept the risk of disqualification instead?
This is a fair point, like I conceded in #5613: "We also agreed that in the future, discussions like this about the terms ought to be brought up at the beginning rather than after the fact."
And I definitely learned a lesson: to hash things out before if I see any potential conflict.
If you're curious for some more details about what happened here, I would say I got excited about getting my idea out as fast as possible and hearing criticisms. I had noticed the potential conflict about AI use, and I had marked it in my head as something we might have to discuss eventually, but I didn't see that point as arriving until at least the submission seemed to be surviving the criticisms. So when you brought it up and asked whether I was using AI, I immediately said yes.
Veritula discussion trees can’t accurately reflect problematic vs unproblematic ideas when unreasonable people are involved, see #5624. Submitting this as a fix. Jad agrees to terms, breaks them, then wants to argue the purpose and meaning of them. That’s arbitrary, ie the opposite of reason and Veritula. He will no doubt claim he was just trying to follow the Veritula method of addressing criticisms, but the effect is that he’s turning Veritula on its head in the process. There’s no point discussing with people like him.