Oh absolutely. It’s an unwholesome attractor for me, and is part of why I try not to focus my time/attention on LW. I’ve gotten to where, whether accurate or not, my gut-level feeling is that LW kind of hates me and is hostile toward me, and I have to watch my step to be allowed to breathe around here. I try to hold a solid spine and not care about that hostility, both because I don’t want to create it if it’s not there and also because I think it’s unjust and I don’t want to succumb to bullies. But it’s tricky because the perceived vibe grabs me at an animal level.
E.g. it’s hard for me not to make stories about the fact that the comment you’re replying to right now has 3 karma and 4 votes. Meaning some are downvoting it. Why? I don’t know. Very hard not to make stories that feed the paranoid view.
Yeah I would have to agree…. there is way too much doomerism on LW…. to an absurd degree nowadays. Some users seriously need to go outside and smell the roses, so to speak.
It seems like most of the moderates, who acknowledged risks of extinction are above zero but not some huge percentage, have left.
It was always there before too…. but somehow it didn’t seem as disturbing. Perhaps the greatly increased popularity of ai topics, societal relevance, LW popularity, etc., all contributed.
The increasingly burdensome kayfabes around an increasing number of sensitive topics also greatly suppress the once entertaining and more light hearted discussions, so there isnt even that to balance it out.
Oh absolutely. It’s an unwholesome attractor for me, and is part of why I try not to focus my time/attention on LW. I’ve gotten to where, whether accurate or not, my gut-level feeling is that LW kind of hates me and is hostile toward me, and I have to watch my step to be allowed to breathe around here. I try to hold a solid spine and not care about that hostility, both because I don’t want to create it if it’s not there and also because I think it’s unjust and I don’t want to succumb to bullies. But it’s tricky because the perceived vibe grabs me at an animal level.
E.g. it’s hard for me not to make stories about the fact that the comment you’re replying to right now has 3 karma and 4 votes. Meaning some are downvoting it. Why? I don’t know. Very hard not to make stories that feed the paranoid view.
Yeah I would have to agree…. there is way too much doomerism on LW…. to an absurd degree nowadays. Some users seriously need to go outside and smell the roses, so to speak.
It seems like most of the moderates, who acknowledged risks of extinction are above zero but not some huge percentage, have left.
It was always there before too…. but somehow it didn’t seem as disturbing. Perhaps the greatly increased popularity of ai topics, societal relevance, LW popularity, etc., all contributed.
The increasingly burdensome kayfabes around an increasing number of sensitive topics also greatly suppress the once entertaining and more light hearted discussions, so there isnt even that to balance it out.