QC (in Berlin 7/29-???) on Twitter: "@default_friend ah, okay. i mean you in particular criticize a lot of things very publicly that you feel uncomfortable about, and the rationalists in particular attract a lot of critique that is mostly mockery, so... that reaction makes sense to me i guess 😬" / Twitter

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Mar 18, 2021

feeling a little defensive here - can you be more clear about whether this is "I’m uncomfortable with the content and exploring why" or whether this is "critique"? for me these are two very different activities and equivocating between them feels bad to me

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Katherine Dee

@default_friend

Mar 18, 2021

I’m saying “I’m uncomfortable...” and it was read generously as a critique, less generously as mockery. I get the sense that critique gets understood as mockery especially if it’s not from the in-group, based on a previous experience where I accidentally tripped the same switch

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

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ah, okay. i mean you in particular criticize a lot of things very publicly that you feel uncomfortable about, and the rationalists in particular attract a lot of critique that is mostly mockery, so... that reaction makes sense to me i guess 😬

7:46 PM · Mar 18, 2021Twitter Web App

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You’re right

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