I think this resonates with @Aelkus thread from earlier in the day. People really undervalue how much the funhouse mirrors distort perception. Outside looking in, people see obvious grift or projection. But, inside looking out...it can be Kaufman-esque.
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I think we agree. And, the grift *is* extremely pervasive. But a lot of the people in my feed -- and me, sometimes too -- experience a cathartic release in calling things a grift, and mistakenly assume they're somehow inoculated from similar seduction. https://twitter.com/Aelkus/status/1108006821560758272 …
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That depends on the social environment that envelops you too, though. E.g., on here, my network is more leftist, so that baseline is omnipresent and useful, but risks people forgetting that their motivations can produce similar fuckery, too.
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But, really, I think we're just talking about differences in relative effect sizes with respect to different subpopulations which isn't very useful. Except, I'm the one who hoped into your mentions to talk about the thing I wanted to talk about instead.
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My quick only partially related hot take is that, the heuristics we rely upon when judging the errors of another fuzzy subgroup, tends to blind us to ones we're susceptible, too. That generally requires a different heuristic, even if only subtly so.
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But it's desperately hard to maintain both of them at once, let alone more rigorous thinking. Crushed by a multiplicity of actors far beyond our cognitive capacity, out-group censure becomes chronically activated, and we forget the tools more directly useful to "us."
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This is mostly self criticism at this point, but I'm far more likely to shit on someone like Shapiro than a leftist edgelord right now. Partially, it's conscious alliance management. But, also I'm so tuned to the in-power American right that my perception is narrowing a lot.
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(Kinda why I value both of your accounts, as you're more equal-opportunity hot take ice buckets.)
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