I think it's well-formed enough to be something like a command - there's something it would be like to submit to it - but as you point out it's not a conditional prediction, and even real commands have to implicitly predict differential consequences depending on whether you obey. So it's a third-degree simulacrum of a command, masking the absence of an underlying reality.
Yeah, if it were a command, who would be doing the commanding? I think not the person saying it, but some more abstract thing, and even then I think not a thing that can credibly promise a payoff.
(I think I’m agreeing with you)
And thanks for the comment! It makes it more fun for me to write things
Also, no promises but I take blog post requests from people who comment. If stuff I write can feel somewhat like a conversation that will be a plus for me
I think it's well-formed enough to be something like a command - there's something it would be like to submit to it - but as you point out it's not a conditional prediction, and even real commands have to implicitly predict differential consequences depending on whether you obey. So it's a third-degree simulacrum of a command, masking the absence of an underlying reality.
Yeah, if it were a command, who would be doing the commanding? I think not the person saying it, but some more abstract thing, and even then I think not a thing that can credibly promise a payoff.
(I think I’m agreeing with you)
And thanks for the comment! It makes it more fun for me to write things
Also, no promises but I take blog post requests from people who comment. If stuff I write can feel somewhat like a conversation that will be a plus for me
Are you neighborhood-level collocated with friends in Austin? If so what's that like? Relevant to my interests as expressed here: https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/levels-of-republicanism/