I like this. I think there’s some value in having elite communities that are not 101 spaces. But I am sure how or when I would use one. I do think I improve my rationality by spending time with particular smart thoughtful friends. But this doesn’t really come from exclusion or quarantining other people.
I enjoy the cognitive trashpit and that’s why I’m mostly on twitter now. I am happy to swim in soapy grimy dishwater, not so much because I want to raise the sanity waterline (ha) but the general public is bigger—more challenging, more important. Consider it aliveness practice, or like tsujigiri.
The twitter scene does have standards. but it’s more diffuse, decentralized, informal.
I feel like you’re trying to build a new science (great!) but I’m more interested in a new version of something like the viennese coffee house scene.
I like this. I think there’s some value in having elite communities that are not 101 spaces. But I am sure how or when I would use one. I do think I improve my rationality by spending time with particular smart thoughtful friends. But this doesn’t really come from exclusion or quarantining other people.
I enjoy the cognitive trashpit and that’s why I’m mostly on twitter now. I am happy to swim in soapy grimy dishwater, not so much because I want to raise the sanity waterline (ha) but the general public is bigger—more challenging, more important. Consider it aliveness practice, or like tsujigiri.
The twitter scene does have standards. but it’s more diffuse, decentralized, informal.
I feel like you’re trying to build a new science (great!) but I’m more interested in a new version of something like the viennese coffee house scene.