am writing this as my first ever article on this website. This isn’t going to be particularly clear or good, I just hope it’s ok enough, or well… interesting / fun to read.
Given the circumstances, you did a great job!
People writing their first article on a political topic (and as you said, the discourse about AGP is often political) is usually a recipe for disaster, simply because those people were attracted to LessWrong by the topic, rather than by the local norms of communication. So they write a political article, ignoring the local standards. You have successfully avoided that. Congratulations!
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That said, I have no idea about the correctness of your hypothesis. There is often a big difference between “sounds plausible” and “is true”, and I have no data to check your hypothesis against (I have no such dysphoria myself; and if someone in my proximity does, they stay in the closet). So all I can say is that it sounds plausible to me, but who knows, tomorrow someone may provide a similarly plausible story in a different direction. Or maybe there is an obvious flaw that I don’t see, but people who actually have the dysphoria may be screaming in frustration as they read the article. I have no idea.
People express very strong opinions and emotions in different directions, which seems to me like a good reason to refrain from mere guessing. Generally, this entire discussion frustrates me a lot. Not your fault, of course.
Given the circumstances, you did a great job!
People writing their first article on a political topic (and as you said, the discourse about AGP is often political) is usually a recipe for disaster, simply because those people were attracted to LessWrong by the topic, rather than by the local norms of communication. So they write a political article, ignoring the local standards. You have successfully avoided that. Congratulations!
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That said, I have no idea about the correctness of your hypothesis. There is often a big difference between “sounds plausible” and “is true”, and I have no data to check your hypothesis against (I have no such dysphoria myself; and if someone in my proximity does, they stay in the closet). So all I can say is that it sounds plausible to me, but who knows, tomorrow someone may provide a similarly plausible story in a different direction. Or maybe there is an obvious flaw that I don’t see, but people who actually have the dysphoria may be screaming in frustration as they read the article. I have no idea.
People express very strong opinions and emotions in different directions, which seems to me like a good reason to refrain from mere guessing. Generally, this entire discussion frustrates me a lot. Not your fault, of course.