Hi! First-time commentor here, but I’ve been reading things from LessWrong sporadically for the last 3-ish years (far before I made this account).
I wanted to say that this post resonated with me, and I found it interesting to compare my own way of dealing with the conflict between my value of truth and intellectual honesty with the socially-promoted idea of egalitarianism.
I reject the second in favour of the first out of principle, and I’ve found that in combination with my generally poor social skills, this has caused issues for me. Largely, I deal with this IRL (online is fair game) by simply not engaging in such discussion where I am not somewhat intellectually familiar with the other person, and even where intellectual conflict arises, I find I am capable of not caringTM beyond the scope of intellectualism, and engaging with them on different matters — perhaps this is why I find I’m much the opposite, and find myself comfortable among very different groups of people that if combined I presume would violently explode.
Hi! First-time commentor here, but I’ve been reading things from LessWrong sporadically for the last 3-ish years (far before I made this account).
I wanted to say that this post resonated with me, and I found it interesting to compare my own way of dealing with the conflict between my value of truth and intellectual honesty with the socially-promoted idea of egalitarianism.
I reject the second in favour of the first out of principle, and I’ve found that in combination with my generally poor social skills, this has caused issues for me. Largely, I deal with this IRL (online is fair game) by simply not engaging in such discussion where I am not somewhat intellectually familiar with the other person, and even where intellectual conflict arises, I find I am capable of not caringTM beyond the scope of intellectualism, and engaging with them on different matters — perhaps this is why I find I’m much the opposite, and find myself comfortable among very different groups of people that if combined I presume would violently explode.