I’m most worried about 2, I think there’s potentially something toxic about the framing of “rationality habits” in general, which has previously led to a culture of there being all these rationality “tricks” that would solve all your problems … which in turn leads to people uncritically trying dubious techniques that fuck them up.
Could you say a bit more here, please?
(not a direct response, but:) My belief has been that there are loads of people in the bay area doing dubious things that mess them up (eg tulpas, drugs, weird sex things, weird cult things—both in the rationalist diaspora, and in the bay area broadly), but this is mostly people aiming to be edgy and do “weird/cool/powerful” things, not people trying CFAR techniques as such.
Could you say a bit more here, please?
(not a direct response, but:) My belief has been that there are loads of people in the bay area doing dubious things that mess them up (eg tulpas, drugs, weird sex things, weird cult things—both in the rationalist diaspora, and in the bay area broadly), but this is mostly people aiming to be edgy and do “weird/cool/powerful” things, not people trying CFAR techniques as such.
(Nevermind, after thinking about it a bit more I think I get it.)