So I’ve been kinda doing some casual reading on shamans and cult leader types, and generally I feel like the mistake they all seem to make is they edit out uncertainty from their messaging, which selects for a certain kind of maniacal True Believer. Faster growth but v dangerous
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Replying to @visakanv
Malcolm ☣️cean - check sense of smell 👃 — 🌎 🇨🇦 Retweeted Malcolm ☣️cean - check sense of smell 👃 — 🌎 🇨🇦
Check out The Guru Papers. It outlines the structural dynamics of how this stuff happens, and the implications. It's one of the books that's blown my mind the most in the last few years
https://twitter.com/Malcolm_Ocean/status/1073138049926737920 …Malcolm ☣️cean - check sense of smell 👃 — 🌎 🇨🇦 added,
Malcolm ☣️cean - check sense of smell 👃 — 🌎 🇨🇦 @Malcolm_OceanReplying to @herculeanvision @artfulfutureCheck out the book The Guru Papers by Joel Kramar & Diana Alstad. Has a bunch of really powerful stuff on the structures of this, and how it connects to addiction, love, control, abstraction and other topics. https://amzn.to/2UGI8eZ pic.twitter.com/5N2U4PODG12 replies 0 retweets 4 likes -
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@Meaningness has some great notes on the Guru Papers here:https://meaningness.com/metablog/guru-papers-monism-control …1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
@Meaningness how about tweeting that entire post out as a thread, so we can QT the individual excerpts? (I mean, I could also do that, but seeing as he's the one who collected those particular excerpts I thought... Hm. I guess it's actually a huge amount of work. >100 tweets)2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
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Okay, in a few minutes I've copied a quarter of them into twitter, so it doesn't actually take that long.
@Meaningness, lmk if you want to be the one to do this, otherwise I will
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Go for it!
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