Isn’t this extremely social-context-dependent? Do you mean “almost no other LW readers would agree with you on”? Or “almost nobody in the (poorly-defined) ‘mainstream’ would agree with you on”? Or “almost nobody in your ‘primary’ social group (whatever that is) would agree with you on”? Or “almost nobody in the world (to what threshold? that’s a lot of people!) would agree with you on”?
Edited to add: To make the concrete connection explicit, I can think of a number of things I believe that I wouldn’t dare say out loud on LW, and a number of things I believe that I wouldn’t dare say out loud in another very different social setting I’m attached to, but they don’t intersect much. I’m not sure I can think of much I believe where I have no social group that would agree with me.
This. I decided to answer based on “Or ‘almost nobody in the world (to what threshold? that’s a lot of people!) would agree with you on’?” since that seems to me to be more in line with the original list’s remaining unredacted points. I don’t think it would be useful for each of us to spout things we learned from or because of LW or that are common in the LW community. And I agree with you that I hold very few opinions that aren’t common in at least one social group.
Unfortunately that last category is absurdly large, and would include almost all beliefs I would ever bother to think of as beliefs. I filled in a few I thought could be interesting
Isn’t this extremely social-context-dependent? Do you mean “almost no other LW readers would agree with you on”? Or “almost nobody in the (poorly-defined) ‘mainstream’ would agree with you on”? Or “almost nobody in your ‘primary’ social group (whatever that is) would agree with you on”? Or “almost nobody in the world (to what threshold? that’s a lot of people!) would agree with you on”?
Edited to add: To make the concrete connection explicit, I can think of a number of things I believe that I wouldn’t dare say out loud on LW, and a number of things I believe that I wouldn’t dare say out loud in another very different social setting I’m attached to, but they don’t intersect much. I’m not sure I can think of much I believe where I have no social group that would agree with me.
This. I decided to answer based on “Or ‘almost nobody in the world (to what threshold? that’s a lot of people!) would agree with you on’?” since that seems to me to be more in line with the original list’s remaining unredacted points. I don’t think it would be useful for each of us to spout things we learned from or because of LW or that are common in the LW community. And I agree with you that I hold very few opinions that aren’t common in at least one social group.
Unfortunately that last category is absurdly large, and would include almost all beliefs I would ever bother to think of as beliefs. I filled in a few I thought could be interesting