A lot of people on LW seem to feel it’s a problem that we don’t talk much about our feelings on this site. It does seem like a rationality-conducive community should do a whole lot of talking about feelings without reducing them all to ‘here’s a True preference I fully approve of and shall optimize for’ and ‘here’s an evil bad feeling I will expunge’. Responding to ‘mass downvoting feels pretty terrible’ with ‘well, that’s a feeling, feelings aren’t relevant’ or “it doesn’t pay rent to cry over it” doesn’t seem conducive to that goal.
Hm, yes. I agree with this analysis. I focussed too much on the technicality of the voting mechanism which is a kind of inhumane given. Crying about a social norm become technical reality doesn’t help. But saying ‘get over it’ do the underlying issue justice either. I should have taken the feelings more seriously.
Glad we agree. This is in large part a tone issue. It’s still reasonable to ask why someone thinks the existence of feeling X supports policy decision Y; I think that can be done without sounding dismissive.
A lot of people on LW seem to feel it’s a problem that we don’t talk much about our feelings on this site. It does seem like a rationality-conducive community should do a whole lot of talking about feelings without reducing them all to ‘here’s a True preference I fully approve of and shall optimize for’ and ‘here’s an evil bad feeling I will expunge’. Responding to ‘mass downvoting feels pretty terrible’ with ‘well, that’s a feeling, feelings aren’t relevant’ or “it doesn’t pay rent to cry over it” doesn’t seem conducive to that goal.
Hm, yes. I agree with this analysis. I focussed too much on the technicality of the voting mechanism which is a kind of inhumane given. Crying about a social norm become technical reality doesn’t help. But saying ‘get over it’ do the underlying issue justice either. I should have taken the feelings more seriously.
Glad we agree. This is in large part a tone issue. It’s still reasonable to ask why someone thinks the existence of feeling X supports policy decision Y; I think that can be done without sounding dismissive.