>Honestly I think he is just an incredibly socially clueless person who wants to be liked by a community he respects, and everything he’s doing is to prove his worthiness to Less Wrong. Unfortunately his… tactics aren’t particularly well-received, being painfully transparent.
> encourage him to modify his behavior
has modified his behaviors somewhat
would encourage him to continue to modify further.
but then turns around and transgresses again in some other fashion.
Perhaps he is lacking some fundamental understanding that if he were given we could trust him to no longer transgress and instead improve. I haven’t the faintest idea what; or how to find it. Nor do I have much energy left (after already trying many times) for trying down this pathway (or any) on his behalf.
I think he doesn’t understand average people. And I think that he thinks that he does.
And then he uses people’s mental faults to try to improve their minds, which is… wrong? I think that’s the issue, the thing he is “uncannily off” about. He’s trying to fool people into not being fools.
People don’t like being made into fools, so insofar as he succeeds, he turns them off from rationality, rather than turning them onto it. And for a community that already struggles with an aura of cultishness, it’s exactly the wrong kind of approach.
And then he uses people’s mental faults to try to improve their minds, which is… wrong?
I don’t think he’s doing anything like that. It’s true that he tailors his content to the lowest common denominator (because he views this as the only feasible way of reaching that crowd), but surely people with no “mental faults” can benefit from it just as much as anyone else.
>Honestly I think he is just an incredibly socially clueless person who wants to be liked by a community he respects, and everything he’s doing is to prove his worthiness to Less Wrong. Unfortunately his… tactics aren’t particularly well-received, being painfully transparent.
> encourage him to modify his behavior
would encourage him to continue to modify further.
Perhaps he is lacking some fundamental understanding that if he were given we could trust him to no longer transgress and instead improve. I haven’t the faintest idea what; or how to find it. Nor do I have much energy left (after already trying many times) for trying down this pathway (or any) on his behalf.
I think he doesn’t understand average people. And I think that he thinks that he does.
And then he uses people’s mental faults to try to improve their minds, which is… wrong? I think that’s the issue, the thing he is “uncannily off” about. He’s trying to fool people into not being fools.
People don’t like being made into fools, so insofar as he succeeds, he turns them off from rationality, rather than turning them onto it. And for a community that already struggles with an aura of cultishness, it’s exactly the wrong kind of approach.
I don’t think he’s doing anything like that. It’s true that he tailors his content to the lowest common denominator (because he views this as the only feasible way of reaching that crowd), but surely people with no “mental faults” can benefit from it just as much as anyone else.