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wondering about everything • coding & cat-herding at @makerdao • existence precedes essence—or does it? ☯

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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 14 Dec 2018
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      I think Seth Godin said something like "a technology becomes socially interesting when it becomes technologically boring."

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 14 Dec 2018
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      On the more philosophical end, there's that line from A. N. Whitehead. "civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them"

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 14 Dec 2018
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      We focus a lot on the abuse/discarding of norms with the line "this is not normal." You make things interesting by flouting norms. You make things boring by installing norms.

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 14 Dec 2018
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      Hypothesis: cults/alt realities rise to prominence by being interesting, but establish themselves for the long term by deliberately becoming boring. If you stop at flouting/breaking old norms, you'll vanish like a flash flood leaving no trace behind. Old norms will just come back

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 14 Dec 2018
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      The other half of the equation, "normalizing" new things, is the scary part, but we often confuse it with simply being numb/jaded/exhausted/burnt out by repetition of a transgression. That's not "normalization."

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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 14 Dec 2018
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      The joke "the beatings will continue until morale improves" gets at why mere repetition of a transgression to exhaust the capacity of outrage is not a way to install a new norm. A norm is self-enforcing without much energy/coercion/"beating".

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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 14 Dec 2018
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      Trump era has numbed us to a lot of things, but it hasn't actually normalized any new behaviors that weren't already normalized. So far, "this is not normal" hasn't been a necessary chant. That's the good news.

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    8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 14 Dec 2018
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      There's been a few wannabe new-normalizers in the crowd (Miller?) but they've had low impact at the norms level outside of regulatory hacks/de-institutionalization efforts. Fortunately, it still isn't "normal" to be cruel to children. Pussy-grabbing hasn't replaced hand-shaking.

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    9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 14 Dec 2018
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      I have ideas on how to actually install norms and make behaviors normal, boring, and most importantly, not-shameful. You can't do it to all behaviors, a pre-normalization reasonableness test applies. But for good candidate norms, there's a playbook of sorts.

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    10. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 14 Dec 2018
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      8 Rules for Norms 1. Make it unskilled 2. Make it self-reinforcing 3. Automate it 4. Take heroism/villainy out of it 5. Make it visible+imitable 6. Make it microkarmic (1 recycled can: 1 whuffie) 7. Unbrand it (secret handshake -> ordinary) 8. Uncode it (virtue signal value =0)

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      Lawrus‏ @levity 14 Dec 2018
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      Replying to @vgr

      Speaking of "background social infrastructure", quite a few of these rules apply to the development of the social media like button.

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