1) This seems like an endeavor that has a number of very obvious failure modes. Like, the intentional community community apparently bans this sort of thing, because it tends to end badly. I am at a complete loss to name anything that really comes close, and hasn’t failed badly. Do you acknowledge that you are clearly treading in dangerous waters?
2) While you’ve said “we’ve noticed the skulls”, there’s been at least 3 failure modes raised in the comment which you had to append to address (outsider safety check-ins, an abort/exit strategy, and the issue of romantic entanglement). Given that we’ve already found 3 skulls you didn’t notice, don’t you think you should take some time to reconsider the chances that you’ve missed further skulls?
I note for others reading this comment and wondering why it hasn’t been addressed that I’ve ceased replying to handoflixue and a couple of other posters on a policy level, for reasons surrounding norms of discourse, strawmanning, epistemic humility, presence or absence of good faith, etc. It’s possible that the above contains good questions or insights; if someone else chooses to repost/re-ask/rephrase sections of this, I’ll likely respond to them.
Concerns about you specifically as a leader
1) This seems like an endeavor that has a number of very obvious failure modes. Like, the intentional community community apparently bans this sort of thing, because it tends to end badly. I am at a complete loss to name anything that really comes close, and hasn’t failed badly. Do you acknowledge that you are clearly treading in dangerous waters?
2) While you’ve said “we’ve noticed the skulls”, there’s been at least 3 failure modes raised in the comment which you had to append to address (outsider safety check-ins, an abort/exit strategy, and the issue of romantic entanglement). Given that we’ve already found 3 skulls you didn’t notice, don’t you think you should take some time to reconsider the chances that you’ve missed further skulls?
I note for others reading this comment and wondering why it hasn’t been addressed that I’ve ceased replying to handoflixue and a couple of other posters on a policy level, for reasons surrounding norms of discourse, strawmanning, epistemic humility, presence or absence of good faith, etc. It’s possible that the above contains good questions or insights; if someone else chooses to repost/re-ask/rephrase sections of this, I’ll likely respond to them.
http://lesswrong.com/lw/c1/wellkept_gardens_die_by_pacifism/