As much as a I like LessWrong for what it is, I think it’s often guilty of a lot of the negative aspects of conformity and coworking that you point out here. Ie. killing good ideas in their cradle. Of course, there are trade-offs to this sort of thing and I certainly appreciate brass-tacks and hard-nosed reasoning sometimes. There is also a need for ingenuity, non-conformity, and genuine creativity (in all of its deeply anti-social glory).
Thank you for sharing this! It helped me feel LessWeird about the sorts of things I do in my own creative/explorative processes and it gave me some new techniques/mindset-things to try.
I suspect there is some kind of internal asymmetry between how we process praise and rejection, especially when it comes to vulnerable things like our identities and our ideas. Back when I used to watch more “content creators” I remember they would consistently gripe that they could read 100 positive comments and still feel most affected by the one or two negative ones.
Well, cheers to not letting our thinking be crushed by the status quo! Nor by critics, internal or otherwise!
Great post!
As much as a I like LessWrong for what it is, I think it’s often guilty of a lot of the negative aspects of conformity and coworking that you point out here. Ie. killing good ideas in their cradle. Of course, there are trade-offs to this sort of thing and I certainly appreciate brass-tacks and hard-nosed reasoning sometimes. There is also a need for ingenuity, non-conformity, and genuine creativity (in all of its deeply anti-social glory).
Thank you for sharing this! It helped me feel LessWeird about the sorts of things I do in my own creative/explorative processes and it gave me some new techniques/mindset-things to try.
I suspect there is some kind of internal asymmetry between how we process praise and rejection, especially when it comes to vulnerable things like our identities and our ideas. Back when I used to watch more “content creators” I remember they would consistently gripe that they could read 100 positive comments and still feel most affected by the one or two negative ones.
Well, cheers to not letting our thinking be crushed by the status quo! Nor by critics, internal or otherwise!