unfortunate thing about crucial social affordances whose cost-benefit structures can't be articulated because articulating them would wreck their benefits is that when someone wants to tear them down because they've decided it's what's making them sad, you don't have a lot to say
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Replying to @chaosprime @DogOfPoasts
how does legibility harm its benefits?
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Replying to @lunavis @DogOfPoasts
the answer to this question is a cognitohazard; please confirm voluntary cognitohazard exposure before proceeding
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Replying to @lunavis @DogOfPoasts
untagging poast dog; poast dog, exercise caution before expanding thread
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Replying to @chaosprime @lunavis
because knowing that you can get a steady dopamine flow from believing that you're personally important to a big weirdo in the sky whether or not he's actually there is an obstacle to believing same, not a facilitator of it
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Replying to @chaosprime @lunavis
(example of principle, not exhaustive catalog of relevant phenomena)
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Replying to @chaosprime
trying to generalize from that; I have a concern that if someone is carrying around a belief that fragile, having to shield it from information will close off opportunities in many seemingly-unrelated areas
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Replying to @chaosprime
adding to that, members have to coordinate to protect said affordance and you pretty much have an egregore on your hand and then some of those affordances impose negative externalities on others
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Replying to @lunavis @chaosprime
to put it uncharitably, it seems kind of like contracting tapeworms for weight loss purposes
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