If my post acts as an attempt to persuade others to join the Blue team, or if it carries a subtext of that flavor, then I need to improve my communication skills.
While writing this post, I would regularly notice little phrases, graph choices, etc. which communicated an unnecessary Blue bias. To the best of my ability I’ve tried to minimize all of that. Alas, eliminating one’s bias from one’s communication is a continuous process. There will always be more.
I’ve raised my Blue heart to the sky, that any bias I’ve overlooked might be made obvious to others. If you’ve found it, then I’ll at least consider that last part a success.
Still, I’d like to emphasize: I do not want to persuade you to change sides. Adjusting the outcome of a sawtooth problem might be but one path toward safe resolution. If there are other paths, I expect them to be much easier to walk—provided we can find them.
I meant it when I described Red as a kind of fallback strategy for the overall population. For most of my life, I’ve seen a world drowning in Blue coordination failure. By looking at it through the framework of sawtooth space, I feel like I now see vast swaths of Red picking up the pieces of Blue hubris.
I think safely resolving a dangerous sawtooth problem essentially involves smoothing it out, such that the Threshold disappears and our choice of color becomes irrelevant.
Would I like it if you voted Blue? Of course I would. I’m a Blue. But I really don’t want you to change your vote. It feels like it would be dangerous for me to want you to change your vote. If I succeed in persuading you, and Blues nevertheless fail, then all I’ve managed to do is drag everyone a little further into the Threshold. Stay Red. The world might need you.
If my post acts as an attempt to persuade others to join the Blue team, or if it carries a subtext of that flavor, then I need to improve my communication skills.
While writing this post, I would regularly notice little phrases, graph choices, etc. which communicated an unnecessary Blue bias. To the best of my ability I’ve tried to minimize all of that. Alas, eliminating one’s bias from one’s communication is a continuous process. There will always be more.
I’ve raised my Blue heart to the sky, that any bias I’ve overlooked might be made obvious to others. If you’ve found it, then I’ll at least consider that last part a success.
Still, I’d like to emphasize: I do not want to persuade you to change sides. Adjusting the outcome of a sawtooth problem might be but one path toward safe resolution. If there are other paths, I expect them to be much easier to walk—provided we can find them.
I meant it when I described Red as a kind of fallback strategy for the overall population. For most of my life, I’ve seen a world drowning in Blue coordination failure. By looking at it through the framework of sawtooth space, I feel like I now see vast swaths of Red picking up the pieces of Blue hubris.
I think safely resolving a dangerous sawtooth problem essentially involves smoothing it out, such that the Threshold disappears and our choice of color becomes irrelevant.
Would I like it if you voted Blue? Of course I would. I’m a Blue. But I really don’t want you to change your vote. It feels like it would be dangerous for me to want you to change your vote. If I succeed in persuading you, and Blues nevertheless fail, then all I’ve managed to do is drag everyone a little further into the Threshold. Stay Red. The world might need you.