My impression is that for the majority of my audience, my efforts to show how everything adds up to normality are redundant, and mostly they’re going by a vague feeling. Overall, it seems to me that there are people trying to do the kind of translational work Davis is asking for, but the community is not, as a whole, applying the sort of discernment that would demand such work. Whether or not this is the problem Davis is trying to identify, I’m worried enough about it that LessWrong has been getting less and less interesting to me as a community to engage with. You’re probably by far the person most worth reaching who isn’t already in my “faction,” such as it is, and Davis is one of the few others who seem to be trying to make sense of things at all.
Overall, it seems to me that there are people trying to do the kind of translational work Davis is asking for, but the community is not, as a whole, applying the sort of discernment that would demand such work.
Agreed, yeah. This is maybe the main thing I’m getting at—I’m trying to shock people into realizing “hey, everything isn’t fine, things are going wrong” and applying more discernment to what’s going on in the community.
My impression is that for the majority of my audience, my efforts to show how everything adds up to normality are redundant, and mostly they’re going by a vague feeling. Overall, it seems to me that there are people trying to do the kind of translational work Davis is asking for, but the community is not, as a whole, applying the sort of discernment that would demand such work. Whether or not this is the problem Davis is trying to identify, I’m worried enough about it that LessWrong has been getting less and less interesting to me as a community to engage with. You’re probably by far the person most worth reaching who isn’t already in my “faction,” such as it is, and Davis is one of the few others who seem to be trying to make sense of things at all.
Agreed, yeah. This is maybe the main thing I’m getting at—I’m trying to shock people into realizing “hey, everything isn’t fine, things are going wrong” and applying more discernment to what’s going on in the community.