Who the heck are Circling Institute and why are they giving circling a bad name?
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Replying to @yashkaf
shocked shocked that a novel social institution would be vulnerable to predators
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Circling is not any more of an institution than meditation is, although the general idea does lend itself to cults. Also, I would never circle on video so what you see on YouTube is selected for marketing, not representativeness. As for novel institutions:https://twitter.com/yashkaf/status/1300576017489317889?s=19 …
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Replying to @yashkaf
nice try ive been to too many solstice parties to believe this
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Replying to @eigenrobot
Is there a single thing associated with the Rationalist (tm) brand you're willing to admit to sincerely liking or would that ruin your street cred forever?
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Replying to @yashkaf
oh sure! off the top of my head scott's irreplaceable, early EA around charity efficacy was fantastic, Hanson's earlier work was a great help to me
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Replying to @eigenrobot
My sense is that the real reason you don't want to like circling is not because it's a hippy cult or manipulative or touchy feely, but because it's about legibility. So are many other Rationalist things like polyamory and CFAR and making bets on object level things.
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there is some of that--i am very suspicious of legibility otoh i owe someone $20 thank you for reminding mehttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1288199215122849792?s=19 …
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By and large, rats are happy if others understand them better, especially if it lets you understand yourself. Post rats are prob worried this makes you vulnerable to predators? I think that being weird protects against predators, as is being legible to friends for coordination.
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Replying to @yashkaf
There's some of that Some of it is just a neurotype, probably Partly some illegibility is socially load-bearing A lot of it is that object-level legible expression is typically expensive and inefficient relative to metalegible expression
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Ask and Tell Culture are very popular but Guess Culture works better in an attuned group
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Replying to @eigenrobot
My general view of this is that people are 90% illegible to each other, with rats it's maybe down to 80%, not 10%. That's why everyone loves a good "guesser" who anticipates your desires, even nerds. We're not actually robots with a source code one can read
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