It’s getting difficult for me to read these, and I basically agree with you on everything already and have read basically everything you’ve ever written (except Project Lawful). I don’t think that anyone who disagrees with you will come away from this with a positive impression of your views or you as a person.
This story overstays its welcome by not being particularly clever or funny. The stand-in for your opponents is so comically unlikeable that it reads like a caricature; my brain assumes that Humman is a strawman even though he (apparently) isn’t because of the utter disdain that drips from the way you’ve written him. This might have worked in short form but this is a “42 minute read” by LW’s metrics.
If you try to have conversations about things that actually matter, many humans immediately become exactly that unlikeable. It’s through social conditioning that we mostly learn to stop talking about things that matter because it goes so poorly.
I don’t think this is true. This sounds like an issue that stems from the manner in which one approaches conversations, not the sorts of things one talks about.
I do not expect a longer comment on discussion to be useful to this thread (or, more importantly, to the post it’s under), but I would like to put some chips down on the idea that talking to people in respectful and non-smug ways can be a good way to talk about “things that actually matter”.
It’s getting difficult for me to read these, and I basically agree with you on everything already and have read basically everything you’ve ever written (except Project Lawful). I don’t think that anyone who disagrees with you will come away from this with a positive impression of your views or you as a person.
This story overstays its welcome by not being particularly clever or funny. The stand-in for your opponents is so comically unlikeable that it reads like a caricature; my brain assumes that Humman is a strawman even though he (apparently) isn’t because of the utter disdain that drips from the way you’ve written him. This might have worked in short form but this is a “42 minute read” by LW’s metrics.
If you try to have conversations about things that actually matter, many humans immediately become exactly that unlikeable. It’s through social conditioning that we mostly learn to stop talking about things that matter because it goes so poorly.
I don’t think this is true. This sounds like an issue that stems from the manner in which one approaches conversations, not the sorts of things one talks about.
I do not expect a longer comment on discussion to be useful to this thread (or, more importantly, to the post it’s under), but I would like to put some chips down on the idea that talking to people in respectful and non-smug ways can be a good way to talk about “things that actually matter”.