Partially, I’m afraid that if this doesn’t go well, our community will lose a cohort of promising people.
I really don’t know what you mean by “lose” here (and I’m worried that others will have varying interpretations as well). Do you mean they’ll become less promising? Not promising? Leave the community? Go crazy? Die?
Anyway, this seems sensible, but I still want to nudge you and everyone else in the direction of sharing more explicit models of what you think could actually go wrong.
Sorry, I was imagining a scenario where a person has an unpleasant experience and then leaves the community because for the last several months all their close contacts in the community were in the context of an unpleasant living situation. That’s bad for the person, and unfortunate for the community as well.
I see a possible failure mode where a member of a participant’s family not into any rationalist community sees the Dragon Army rules and pattern-matches the rules and behavior into ‘cult’ (not arguing whether that pattern match is correct here, just saying that it might happen).
A family member concerned that their loved one might be involved in a dangerous cult might take extraordinary measures to remove that person from the situation, which might get very ugly.
I’m not sure that a nonparticipating buddy is sufficient to mitigate the risk of ‘rescue’.
I really don’t know what you mean by “lose” here (and I’m worried that others will have varying interpretations as well). Do you mean they’ll become less promising? Not promising? Leave the community? Go crazy? Die?
Anyway, this seems sensible, but I still want to nudge you and everyone else in the direction of sharing more explicit models of what you think could actually go wrong.
Sorry, I was imagining a scenario where a person has an unpleasant experience and then leaves the community because for the last several months all their close contacts in the community were in the context of an unpleasant living situation. That’s bad for the person, and unfortunate for the community as well.
I see a possible failure mode where a member of a participant’s family not into any rationalist community sees the Dragon Army rules and pattern-matches the rules and behavior into ‘cult’ (not arguing whether that pattern match is correct here, just saying that it might happen).
A family member concerned that their loved one might be involved in a dangerous cult might take extraordinary measures to remove that person from the situation, which might get very ugly.
I’m not sure that a nonparticipating buddy is sufficient to mitigate the risk of ‘rescue’.