I mostly agree with Vladimir’s comments. My wording may have been over-dramatic. I’ve been fascinated with these topics and have thought and read a lot about them, and my conclusions have been mostly in the direction of not feeling as much concern, but I think if a narrative like that became legibly a “rationalist meme” like how the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics is a “rationalist meme”, it could be strategically quite harmful, and at any rate I don’t care about it as a subject of activism. On the other hand, I don’t want people to be wrong. I’ve been going back and forth on whether to write a Megapost, but I also have the thing where writing multiple sentences is like pulling teeth; let me know if you have a solution to that one.
I agree on your evaluation on the strategic harm this meme would cause if spread. I will have to be careful to not spread this narrative when I write about this subject, it’s not a risk I had already considered.
The likelihood of this narrative spreading doesn’t feel to me as lesser if I don’t write my post or if I didn’t wrote this question, though.
I posted this question specifically because I had noticed in several occasions comments that would support that narrative, especially if taken out of contest, also because they weren’t throughly explaining the thought processes behind them, and I think I’ve saw a number of conversations below average for users of this site, so others could get that idea as well. But after hearing the reasonings in these comments “not caring about climate change” is not how I see the viewpoint of the community anymore and I have a model of it that’s a lot less negative (in a sense of the utility values I assign to it). I still feel like I can provide an improvement, though.
I’d be very interested in knowing how to not write a Megapost half the times I comment, instead. I can’t help but to obsess over having been enough explicative or precise, writing this took me thirty-eight minutes by the clock.
I mostly agree with Vladimir’s comments. My wording may have been over-dramatic. I’ve been fascinated with these topics and have thought and read a lot about them, and my conclusions have been mostly in the direction of not feeling as much concern, but I think if a narrative like that became legibly a “rationalist meme” like how the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics is a “rationalist meme”, it could be strategically quite harmful, and at any rate I don’t care about it as a subject of activism. On the other hand, I don’t want people to be wrong. I’ve been going back and forth on whether to write a Megapost, but I also have the thing where writing multiple sentences is like pulling teeth; let me know if you have a solution to that one.
I agree on your evaluation on the strategic harm this meme would cause if spread. I will have to be careful to not spread this narrative when I write about this subject, it’s not a risk I had already considered.
The likelihood of this narrative spreading doesn’t feel to me as lesser if I don’t write my post or if I didn’t wrote this question, though.
I posted this question specifically because I had noticed in several occasions comments that would support that narrative, especially if taken out of contest, also because they weren’t throughly explaining the thought processes behind them, and I think I’ve saw a number of conversations below average for users of this site, so others could get that idea as well. But after hearing the reasonings in these comments “not caring about climate change” is not how I see the viewpoint of the community anymore and I have a model of it that’s a lot less negative (in a sense of the utility values I assign to it). I still feel like I can provide an improvement, though.
I’d be very interested in knowing how to not write a Megapost half the times I comment, instead. I can’t help but to obsess over having been enough explicative or precise, writing this took me thirty-eight minutes by the clock.