On the object level: because a plurality if not a majority of actual, real humans have indeed been reassured by them, including some who were open critics and said things like “I traveled 50% of the distance toward ‘this is a good idea’ [just from this post].” It’s worth noting that I’m not going to refrain from saying true things that cults have also said; reversed stupidity is not intelligence and the thrust of this post was never “differentiate myself from cults,” it was “here’s a thing I want to try.”
On the discourse level: still jumping to conclusions left and right. “When Duncan said well known, he must have meant charismatic, obviously.” False—Eli Tyre is many, many good things, but “charismatic” is not usually a compliment given to him. Furthermore, I note that you decided to ignore all of the other object-level content in favor of picking one nit (based on false assumptions), so I’m taking that as “you had nothing good to criticize in that other stuff, and so you decided not to say anything at all,” i.e. you’re unable to say “good point” and update incrementally.
Stepping up a level: since you’re inclined to view everything I say in the worst possible light and uncharitably leaping to conclusions, I claim that I’m justified in theorizing that literally no answer would’ve satisfied you (had I said 10 hours, you’d have been smugly dismissive of my lack of research; had I said 1000 you’d have said ‘well, you obviously weren’t paying attention’), and that it was a bullshit question to begin with.
We’re done; I anticipate that other skeptics in this thread (like decius and lumifer and deluks and taygetea, for example) will provide me with the overwhelming majority of the value you might offer, and at a fraction of the cost in you’re-doing-a-bunch-of-the-things-the-sequences-exist-to-warn-against.
Also, as far as “we’re done” goes: I agreed to rewrite my original post—not exactly a small time commitment, still working on it in fact. Are you seriously reneging on your original agreement to address it?
See, now you’re the one leaping to conclusions. I didn’t say that all of your talking points are actual talking points from actual cults. I am confused why even some of them are.
If you can point me to someone who felt “I wrote thousands of words” is, in and of itself, a solid argument for you being trustworthy, please link me to it. I need to do them an epistemic favor.
I was using “charismatic” in the sense of having enough of it to hold the group together. If he doesn’t have enough charisma to do that, then he’s kinda worthless as a commanding officer, neh?
Your claim is false. I wanted to know at what level to hold this conversation. I legitimately can’t tell if you’re waving a bunch of “this is a cult” red flags because you’re trying to be honest about the risks here, because you don’t realize they’re red flags, or because you’re playing N-Dimensional chess and these red flags are somehow all part of your plan.
On the object level: because a plurality if not a majority of actual, real humans have indeed been reassured by them, including some who were open critics and said things like “I traveled 50% of the distance toward ‘this is a good idea’ [just from this post].” It’s worth noting that I’m not going to refrain from saying true things that cults have also said; reversed stupidity is not intelligence and the thrust of this post was never “differentiate myself from cults,” it was “here’s a thing I want to try.”
On the discourse level: still jumping to conclusions left and right. “When Duncan said well known, he must have meant charismatic, obviously.” False—Eli Tyre is many, many good things, but “charismatic” is not usually a compliment given to him. Furthermore, I note that you decided to ignore all of the other object-level content in favor of picking one nit (based on false assumptions), so I’m taking that as “you had nothing good to criticize in that other stuff, and so you decided not to say anything at all,” i.e. you’re unable to say “good point” and update incrementally.
Stepping up a level: since you’re inclined to view everything I say in the worst possible light and uncharitably leaping to conclusions, I claim that I’m justified in theorizing that literally no answer would’ve satisfied you (had I said 10 hours, you’d have been smugly dismissive of my lack of research; had I said 1000 you’d have said ‘well, you obviously weren’t paying attention’), and that it was a bullshit question to begin with.
We’re done; I anticipate that other skeptics in this thread (like decius and lumifer and deluks and taygetea, for example) will provide me with the overwhelming majority of the value you might offer, and at a fraction of the cost in you’re-doing-a-bunch-of-the-things-the-sequences-exist-to-warn-against.
Also, as far as “we’re done” goes: I agreed to rewrite my original post—not exactly a small time commitment, still working on it in fact. Are you seriously reneging on your original agreement to address it?
See, now you’re the one leaping to conclusions. I didn’t say that all of your talking points are actual talking points from actual cults. I am confused why even some of them are.
If you can point me to someone who felt “I wrote thousands of words” is, in and of itself, a solid argument for you being trustworthy, please link me to it. I need to do them an epistemic favor.
I was using “charismatic” in the sense of having enough of it to hold the group together. If he doesn’t have enough charisma to do that, then he’s kinda worthless as a commanding officer, neh?
Your claim is false. I wanted to know at what level to hold this conversation. I legitimately can’t tell if you’re waving a bunch of “this is a cult” red flags because you’re trying to be honest about the risks here, because you don’t realize they’re red flags, or because you’re playing N-Dimensional chess and these red flags are somehow all part of your plan.