I do think that this is probably part of my misprediction—that I simply idealize others too much and don’t give enough credit to how inconsistent humans actually are. “Idealize” is probably just the Good version of “flatten”, with “demonize” being the Bad version, both of which are probably because it takes less neurons to model someone else that way.
I actually just recently had the displeasure of stumbling upon that reddit and it made me sad that people wanted to devote their energies to just being unkind without a goal. So I’m probably also not modeling how my own principle of avoiding offense unless helpful would erode over time. I’ve seen it happen to many public figures on twitter—it seems to be part of the system.
I do think that this is probably part of my misprediction—that I simply idealize others too much and don’t give enough credit to how inconsistent humans actually are. “Idealize” is probably just the Good version of “flatten”, with “demonize” being the Bad version, both of which are probably because it takes less neurons to model someone else that way.
I actually just recently had the displeasure of stumbling upon that reddit and it made me sad that people wanted to devote their energies to just being unkind without a goal. So I’m probably also not modeling how my own principle of avoiding offense unless helpful would erode over time. I’ve seen it happen to many public figures on twitter—it seems to be part of the system.