as my twittersphere has drifted away from the blue tribe and toward the gray tribe i've started to notice occasionally feeling like it would be possible to disagree with somebody i'm talking to without them instantly blocking and pillorying me, it's a weird sort of… free feeling
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Replying to @chaosprime
huuuh is it actually that unpleasant? I believe you but I am also taken aback I guess! Like, the outgroup couldn't actually be THAT bad?
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Replying to @eigenrobot @chaosprime
I think this has to do with grey tribe having very little social power in most contexts, and being more agreeable to (so there are less things to be outgrouped about).
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But, controlling for that, I'd bet grey tribe isn't actually better. I've been in situations where grey tribe /does/ have sig social power and where I disagreed strongly, and 100% got the same "walking on egg shells" feeling as is stereotypical of blue tribe milieus
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Replying to @androgynandre @eigenrobot
curses i mean i guess Yudkowsky did namesearch himself to find me telling stories i heard at a party about him and instablock me, lol
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Replying to @chaosprime @eigenrobot
i dont know if its the same thing, but, i think i saw people talking rumors making fun of him for some harmless quirk a few months ago,, i didnt think that was nice
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i can't say i believe myself to have been being nice
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