This was not my intention, though I could have been more careful. Here are my reasons
The original comment seemed really vague, in a way that often dooms conversations. Little progress can be made on most problems without pointing out the specific key reasons for them. The key point to make is that tribalism in this case doesn’t arise spontaneously based on identities alone, it has micro level causes which have macro level causes
I thought Ray’s wanted to discuss what to do for a broader communication strategy, so replying in shortform would be fine because the output would get >20x the views (this is where I could have realized LW shortform has a high profile now, and toned it down somehow), rather than open up the conversation here
I am also frustrated about tribalism and reporting from experience about what I notice in a somewhat exaggerated way. If there is defeatism this is the source, though I don’t think addressing it is impossible, I just don’t have any ideas
If people replied to me with object level twitterbrained comments about how eg everyone has to unite against Marc Andreessen I would be super sad. Hopefully we’re better than that.
This was not my intention, though I could have been more careful. Here are my reasons
The original comment seemed really vague, in a way that often dooms conversations. Little progress can be made on most problems without pointing out the specific key reasons for them. The key point to make is that tribalism in this case doesn’t arise spontaneously based on identities alone, it has micro level causes which have macro level causes
I thought Ray’s wanted to discuss what to do for a broader communication strategy, so replying in shortform would be fine because the output would get >20x the views (this is where I could have realized LW shortform has a high profile now, and toned it down somehow), rather than open up the conversation here
I am also frustrated about tribalism and reporting from experience about what I notice in a somewhat exaggerated way. If there is defeatism this is the source, though I don’t think addressing it is impossible, I just don’t have any ideas
If people replied to me with object level twitterbrained comments about how eg everyone has to unite against Marc Andreessen I would be super sad. Hopefully we’re better than that.