at the very least it didn't work!
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depends on how bad the problem would otherwise have been
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"Ok guys, we're all honest so let's leave our doors open." "OMG you robbed me!" "Well I would have robbed you even more if we hadn't decided to be honest at the beginning"
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Does "politics is the mind killer" more imply "we will ignore politics" or "we will ruthlessly shut politics down" though?
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I think the problem is that it can be used both ways.
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not to mention just as an obviously empirically true statement about psychology!
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The obvious truth about psychology is something like "Humans have coalitional instincts & are very prone to motivated reasoning"; the bug in the "Politics Is the Mind-killer" catchphrase is that it provides an exploit for agendas that can falsely brand themselves as not-politics
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seems to me the common sense response is to prevent false branding. if you can get away with false branding, do you even really need exploits?
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Replying to @VesselOfSpirit @zackmdavis and
maybe more relevantly, i don't think stuff getting falsely branded as "not politics" has been that big a problem. people are much better at recognizing politics than at recognizing when politics is harmful
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"Politics is the mind killer" was successfully used to pull third party people to the side of acquiescing. I saw it happen.
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i think you're understandably overweighting the ways in which it affected you vs the ways in which it affected the average poster
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perhaps, it's hard to tell.
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