Why you should admire excellence more than purity or goodthink. True motives of someone who adds vastly more to a project than you are moot https://twitter.com/slavojzyzzek/status/814496697992773633 …
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas
The sort of person I'm talking about *detracts* from a project. Imagine an office drone who does nothing but play politics.
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Replying to @riyenakshi @QuasLacrimas
If our office drone is clever enough and powerful enough, he'll realize that competent people are obstacles to his career.
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Replying to @riyenakshi @QuasLacrimas
Since they might get promoted, taking up the slot he's angling for. So he'll have to eliminate them all...
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Replying to @riyenakshi @QuasLacrimas
...and fill the company with yes-men and incompetents.
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Replying to @riyenakshi @QuasLacrimas
To apply the analogy to the LW crowd: how did it go from actual insight to Talmudic drain-circling about utilitarianism...
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Replying to @riyenakshi @QuasLacrimas
...and the brand of Vox fanboyism that the idiots from the nü atheist blogosphere glommed onto once that got old?
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Replying to @riyenakshi
I intend to write something related; I'll tag you, I'd be curious to hear your thoughts. Is LessWrongism the term of art, btw?
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So far I'm just calling it "cultishness"
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