I feel like the people from whom I learned to distinguish social-reality from reality-reality, their technique depended a lot of being deliberately confusing or weird, in large part to break me out of established patterns of thought.
Eliezer wrote rather plainly about distinguishing social reality, beliefs-as-attire, etc. And I think this was sufficient to help me notice the reality/social-reality distinction in groups I wasn’t part of myself, or no longer primarily-identified as. But it seemed surprisingly useful to listen to weird rants by other iconoclasts in order to get a clearer sense of how-social-reality-feels from the inside.
(I think those people also may have had other agendas going on that the confusion may have also been part of. I do wonder at the fact that the people who most wanted to break me of my immersion in social reality also had weird agendas that benefited from me being disoriented)
I feel like the people from whom I learned to distinguish social-reality from reality-reality, their technique depended a lot of being deliberately confusing or weird, in large part to break me out of established patterns of thought.
Eliezer wrote rather plainly about distinguishing social reality, beliefs-as-attire, etc. And I think this was sufficient to help me notice the reality/social-reality distinction in groups I wasn’t part of myself, or no longer primarily-identified as. But it seemed surprisingly useful to listen to weird rants by other iconoclasts in order to get a clearer sense of how-social-reality-feels from the inside.
(I think those people also may have had other agendas going on that the confusion may have also been part of. I do wonder at the fact that the people who most wanted to break me of my immersion in social reality also had weird agendas that benefited from me being disoriented)
((Apologies for being a bit cryptic))