starting to suspect the great human binary divides people who (can? do?) separate empirical claims and abstractions generally from Machiavellian social considerations, and those who can't or won't
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Like--consider (eg) kerfuffle over TBC. My guess is the main lay objection reduces to "you're going to use this to get an edge on me." And I'm not sure that's an invalid concern, honestly! Point is that normie spectrum folks are relatively, especially predisposed . . .
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. . . to view abstractions as social plays and there's nothing to be done about it but avoid letting your threatening abstractions leak to the MOPs. Once it's out, defending it as an *idea* is pointless, because the MOPs aren't interacting to an idea but to a social danger.
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I think this is possibly orthogonal to tribes like tribes differ in which abstractions are acceptable maybe
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It may be a distribution with extremes on either end, both of thought-experiment pursuers and thought policers.
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I wonder if extreme thought-experimenters found a stable position as That Weird Shaman Guy
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