When Eliezer posted about the emotion of dislikes-when-people-claim-too-much-status, I couldn’t think of examples of me feeling it, but didn’t think that was strong evidence that I don’t feel it, in general. Recently I noticed that I feel it when someone gets published who doesn’t “deserve” to. The example that clued me off was this HN thread about “Practical Cryptography With Go”. That’s not a great example, because crypto is dangerous, but for example I also felt it about “Eragon” and about a musical that the Singaporean society at my university put on.
But I don’t seem to feel it so much about “Twilight”. I suspect contributing factors are that Stephanie Meyer, as far as I’m aware, was published by a Real Publisher and not by a company set up by her parents to avoid quality control; and that everyone else exhibiting this emotion towards Twilight/Meyer gave me a contrarian desire not to dislike them.
When Eliezer posted about the emotion of dislikes-when-people-claim-too-much-status, I couldn’t think of examples of me feeling it, but didn’t think that was strong evidence that I don’t feel it, in general. Recently I noticed that I feel it when someone gets published who doesn’t “deserve” to. The example that clued me off was this HN thread about “Practical Cryptography With Go”. That’s not a great example, because crypto is dangerous, but for example I also felt it about “Eragon” and about a musical that the Singaporean society at my university put on.
But I don’t seem to feel it so much about “Twilight”. I suspect contributing factors are that Stephanie Meyer, as far as I’m aware, was published by a Real Publisher and not by a company set up by her parents to avoid quality control; and that everyone else exhibiting this emotion towards Twilight/Meyer gave me a contrarian desire not to dislike them.