Oh, interesting. To want to leave alone people who aren’t willing to make the right kinds of sacrifices makes a lot of sense to me. I can come up with objections off the top of my head, and objections to those and so on, so I haven’t thought about it enough to agree or disagree with the idea. The reason I was aiming for agreeableness is that the phrase is intended for answering questions like, “What are your hobbies?” or “What is your friend so-and-so like?” in a short way that communicates the basic idea and keeps the conversation pleasant. I honestly hadn’t considered protecting people from rationality. But now that it’s on my radar, I still am thinking that the vast majority of people who will hear this phrase from me will think “That’s nice,” and move on without ever considering learning more. I also think that for the people who are interested in learning more, I can filter them for devotedness immediately after they express interest.
Now that I think about it, filtering for devotedness is actually pretty tricky, because to admit that you’d rather live in a comfortable lie than with an unpleasant truth is embarrassing. People will be put under pressure to agree to take the red pill even if they really would rather not. I’m not sure what to do about this.
The reason I was aiming for agreeableness is that the phrase is intended for answering questions like, “What are your hobbies?” or “What is your friend so-and-so like?” in a short way that communicates the basic idea and keeps the conversation pleasant.
This makes sense as a thing to want but it’s pretty different from either a motto or an elevator pitch.
Now that I think about it, filtering for devotedness is actually pretty tricky, because to admit that you’d rather live in a comfortable lie than with an unpleasant truth is embarrassing. People will be put under pressure to agree to take the red pill even if they really would rather not. I’m not sure what to do about this.
Yeah, I don’t even bring up the self-deception angle except among people who I already think care about it.
Oh, interesting. To want to leave alone people who aren’t willing to make the right kinds of sacrifices makes a lot of sense to me. I can come up with objections off the top of my head, and objections to those and so on, so I haven’t thought about it enough to agree or disagree with the idea. The reason I was aiming for agreeableness is that the phrase is intended for answering questions like, “What are your hobbies?” or “What is your friend so-and-so like?” in a short way that communicates the basic idea and keeps the conversation pleasant. I honestly hadn’t considered protecting people from rationality. But now that it’s on my radar, I still am thinking that the vast majority of people who will hear this phrase from me will think “That’s nice,” and move on without ever considering learning more. I also think that for the people who are interested in learning more, I can filter them for devotedness immediately after they express interest.
Now that I think about it, filtering for devotedness is actually pretty tricky, because to admit that you’d rather live in a comfortable lie than with an unpleasant truth is embarrassing. People will be put under pressure to agree to take the red pill even if they really would rather not. I’m not sure what to do about this.
This makes sense as a thing to want but it’s pretty different from either a motto or an elevator pitch.
Yeah, I don’t even bring up the self-deception angle except among people who I already think care about it.