This comment helped me articulate something that I hadn’t quite put my finger on before.
There are actually two things that I want to stand up for, which are, from naive perspective, in tension. So I think I need to make sure not to lump them together.
One the one hand, yeah, I think it is deeply true that you can unilaterally do the thing, and with sufficient skill, you can make “the Double Crux thing” work, even with a person who doesn’t explicitly opt in for that kind of discourse (because curiosity and empathy are contagious, and many (but not all, I think) of the problems of people “not being truth-seeking” are actually defense mechanism, rather than persistent character traits).
However, sometimes people have said things like “we should focus on and teach methods that involve seeking out your own single cruxes, because that’s where the action is at.” This has generally made me frown, for the reasons I outlined at the head of my post here: I feel like this is overlooking or discounting the really cool power of the Full Double Crux formalism. I don’t want the awareness of that awesomeness to fall out of the lexicon. (Granted, the current state less like “people are using this awesome technique, but maybe we’re going to loose it as a community” and more like “there’s this technique that most people are frustrated with because it doesn’t seem to work very well, but there is a nearby version that does seem useful to them, but I’m sitting here on the sidelines insisting that the “mainline version” actually is awesome, at least in some limited circumstances.”)
Anyway, I think these are separate things, and I should optimize for them separately, instead of (something like) trying to uphold both at once.
This comment helped me articulate something that I hadn’t quite put my finger on before.
There are actually two things that I want to stand up for, which are, from naive perspective, in tension. So I think I need to make sure not to lump them together.
One the one hand, yeah, I think it is deeply true that you can unilaterally do the thing, and with sufficient skill, you can make “the Double Crux thing” work, even with a person who doesn’t explicitly opt in for that kind of discourse (because curiosity and empathy are contagious, and many (but not all, I think) of the problems of people “not being truth-seeking” are actually defense mechanism, rather than persistent character traits).
However, sometimes people have said things like “we should focus on and teach methods that involve seeking out your own single cruxes, because that’s where the action is at.” This has generally made me frown, for the reasons I outlined at the head of my post here: I feel like this is overlooking or discounting the really cool power of the Full Double Crux formalism. I don’t want the awareness of that awesomeness to fall out of the lexicon. (Granted, the current state less like “people are using this awesome technique, but maybe we’re going to loose it as a community” and more like “there’s this technique that most people are frustrated with because it doesn’t seem to work very well, but there is a nearby version that does seem useful to them, but I’m sitting here on the sidelines insisting that the “mainline version” actually is awesome, at least in some limited circumstances.”)
Anyway, I think these are separate things, and I should optimize for them separately, instead of (something like) trying to uphold both at once.