1/ In 1999 Paul Graham wrote a essay called “keep your identity small” He said that the reason conversations about religion or politics, as opposed to baking or climbing trees, are so fraught with frustration is because they are at the core of someone’s identity.
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2/ “More generally, you can have a fruitful discussion about a topic only if it doesn't engage the identities of any of the participants.” When this happens, something gets triggered, and we cease engaging in rational discourse, and instead retreat to fight or flight mode.
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3/ Humans use identities to help navigate the world. A couch is for sitting, so we will not try to plug our cell phones and expect them to charge. We project ‘identities’ onto people so as to use them as well.
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4/ Not only do we conceptualize the objects / people around us, we obsessively try to ‘define’ the objects within us -- ourselves. We expend a huge amount of energy rationalizing certain events into a story of ‘who we are’ — an inaccurate label that we feel lost without.
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5/ Here’s the particularly insidious thing about labeling, or projecting identities onto other people: it leads us to act toward them in a certain way that usually provokes the very thing that we're labeling. Especially the labels we give ourselves.
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6/ “I used to identify as an atheist, but then I’d find myself defending positions that I hadn’t thought through just because they’re a part of atheist canon, and then I was getting into all sorts of arguments, defending views I wasn’t sure I held just to be consistent."-
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7/ The less concerned we are with our identity, the more we can think from first principles. Also, perhaps paradoxically, the less we judge ourselves, the less we judge other people, because when we judge other people we’re always comparing them with us, or how we’d like to be.
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8/ This pattern is hard to break. The idea of one singular self, as traditionally understood, is rooted deep within our culture. The very word “Individual”—the word means something that can’t be divided—echoes this idea that we have this singular, identity, as opposed to many.
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9/ In attempts to break down identity, popular recommendations have included mindfulness, meditation, consciously separating stimulus from response, etc. Perhaps it’s worth taking a look at the entire structure of identity in society and how it has evolved.
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10/ The whole concept of a “real name” — of a singular name identifying a singular self — is a construct. South America — real names weren’t Hernandez — those names were imposed on them by Spanish colonists in order to more effectively tax.
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11/ You didn’t use to have a first name and last name. You used to have whatever name you wanted in whatever village you were going and you could reboot with a new name in a new village anytime. This was protection against gov’t harm.
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12/ Knowing the real name is to have power over it- that's why govt. enforced real names (read: seeing like a state, h/t
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@pmarca not on twitter? As you get more successful, you become more and more of a target, and have more to lose, and thus have less incentive to contribute to conversation. No one’s at fault, and yet we miss out.Prikaži ovu nit -
14/ Taking the Satoshi route (the pseudonymous inventor of bitcoin) may be a more common route in the future. Satoshi spread an idea in he world and avoided attacks on her/his/their property and liberty.
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15/ In the future, if you want a name that links all accounts you can or you can keep it separate and compartmentalize things You are a different person when you’re talking about healthcare vs religion vs a # of other different topics that bring out different sides of people.
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16/ What’s key is expanding freedom while maintaining accountability.
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@balajis recommendations 1) Individual — maximize personal runway 2) Social - unlock your earning name from your speaking name, to better enable discourse and protect citizens. See this video:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k_2BXwGXFbo …Prikaži ovu nit
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