Please Don't Shame the AI Writers

As someone who writes often and at length about the relativity of boundaries and the complex interrelation of everything with everything else, I find most black-and-white opinions, most expressions of certainty, and most refusals to listen to differing points of view distasteful. If the way I perceive the world depends on the framings I and others have built in my mind, and if there is no such thing as a right or wrong framing without stating a context, then certainty should be the rarest of mental phenomena—a cognitive chimera I'd rather avoid even when applicable, in case it decides to swallow me up. This is the first of Bertrand Russell's Ten Commandments. This worldview, or worldview-openness, frequently leads me to be that guy in a conversation who places himself in the middle, accepts some part of each side's arguments but neither side's fully, proposes conciliatory tweaks to the basic assumptions and suggests leaving some questions tentatively unanswered. I'm that guy who…