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Great article. This covers more of morality than most lesswrongers will notice, I guess. If:
Criticism = an explanation of a problem with an idea
Idea = a recipe (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1407.0681.pdf) that programs a vehicle to execute it
Problem = a conflict between two ideas
Explanation (of a problem with an idea) = a virtual reality environment in which the idea dies when executed by the environment (i.e. executed recursively by a vehicle that bottoms out in the environment.)
, then this idea that it's wrong to criticise people unless they ask for it can explain:
Non-probabilistic formulations of the laws of thermodynamics now exist: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1608.02625.pdf
They are better than other formulations: e.g. they are scale independent and can explain the time asymmetry of the 2nd law.
Can all questions be re-written as statements where you have to fill-in-the-blank?
If so, they may have helped people historically *cooperate* in constructing explanations with *discussion*, because they communicate knowledge, but also communicate that although what was said is incomplete as an explanation, the person who said it is done talking and someone else trying to complete the explanation won't be punished for interrupting.