effect of explicitly claiming varies by context
- The language of "I claim that X" seems to frame what you're saying as something to debate.
- Interestingly, this lands very differently in different contexts:
- politician speech
- weak compared to simply stating X
- among rationalists/scientists
- spacious compared to simply stating X, because you're inviting people to question or counter your claim
- vibeocracy/hippies
- hostile; chill out dude
- sense-making
- sense of debating having an oppositiony quality, compared to "here's how it looks to me, how does it look to you?"
- sort of invokes right-wrong frame
- The difference between among rationalists/scientists and sense-making relates heavily to the difference between being on the same side & being on truth's side
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