aprilwitching asked: like 4.5 - 5 or something, at a glance. more bc i happen to fall into some "broadly true of this demographic" categories than bc i read the internet stuff you guys like or am a transhumanist or libertarian or agree with you on most ideological points or anything like that (i do softcore refuse to identify with political labels, frex, but it's out of resounding i-don't-give-a-damn-itis rather than contrarianism or believing i have some hot new boundary-busting take on it all)
Yeah I went back and did the math, and it’s possible to be labeled as “Very Rationalist Adjacent” merely by being a sufficiently queer person in their early twenties. Does this mean that Rationalists and SJWs are on the same team after all????
Some background assumptions apply. Offer void outside the diaspora tumblrs. I could’ve added a bunch of tests to check the assumptions, but this is tumblr, not rspec, so I didn’t.
But now that we’re on the topic…
So there’s this idea that a lot of the things we take for granted are actually pretty terrible and should not be that way…
and that what we think is simple and obvious, isn’t…
and that we could have a dramatically better society if we fixed certain systematic issues…
that are extremely deep-ingrained in people’s brains and hard to eradicate…
and thus most people who loudly cheer for their eradication still fail to actually achieve substantial progress…
and doing it carelessly makes one just fall into an uncanny valley of “even worse off than before trying”…
and if progress is made, some of it is easily internalized and becomes absolutely obvious, while other forms require constant pumping against entropy…
and that successfully doing such things, in an environment which doesn’t have social structures and institutions rewarding actually getting it right and offering clear actionable strategies for achieving it, is really difficult and probably tragically out of reach for huge amounts of people…
but when people and communities actually succeed in it they create significant value for people and enable new forms of human flourishing…
and that the people flocking into those communities tend to disproportionately be those who are the most hurt by such things and able to recognize them…
and it reliably ends up generating certain insights that are similar with the insights another idea that shares such characteristics ends up generating…
…then the idea that perhaps they might actually have something in common and might benefit from examining each other’s claims and ideas and insights for whatever might be useful because they share the universe they operate in and some of the goals they work towards…
…is certainly an interesting one
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