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    1. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin 26 Aug 2019
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      Normal Optimist things: most mainstream media, Disney, corporate PR, technocracy, performing personal excellence (like fitness or mental/emotional health), explicitly calling for “positivity”, etc.

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    2. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin 26 Aug 2019
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      Neo-Nazis are Weird Pessimists but Hitler’s Nazis were Normal Optimist/Pessimist hybrids.

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    3. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin 26 Aug 2019
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      Triumphalist aesthetics are Normal Optimist. If it’s in primary colors and has the Imperial Eagle on it? Normal Optimist.

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    4. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin 26 Aug 2019
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      Normal Pessimism is pretty rare in discourse but very common in real life. Anybody who is busy working hard to survive and has little patience for nonsense is Normal Pessimist.

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    5. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin 26 Aug 2019
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      Though it's not always practiced by people in conditions of danger or scarcity, I think some of the ethos of engineering and physical/mathematical sciences is Normal Pessimist. Intense conscientiousness. (There's also a Weird Optimist madcap creativity aspect to those fields.)

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    6. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin 26 Aug 2019
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      Weird Pessimism judges people for being disingenuous or unreflective. Normal Pessimism judges people for being incompetent.

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    7. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin 26 Aug 2019
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      Another way of looking at this: Weird Pessimism criticizes things. Normal Optimism tries to make itself impossible to criticize. Normal Pessimism has bigger problems to worry about than criticism. Weird Optimism is too engaged/happy to worry about being criticized.

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    8. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin 27 Aug 2019
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      Yet another way of looking at it: There are social gradients that push towards stupidity. Normal Optimism has a sense of those gradients, and enthusiastically goes with the flow. Weird Pessimism has a sense of those gradients and hates them (but is still kind of trapped in them.)

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    9. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin 27 Aug 2019
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      Normal Pessimism is locked out of those gradients by necessity; it “can’t afford to be stupid.” And Weird Optimism ignores or is unaware of those gradients.

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    10. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin 27 Aug 2019
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      My own cards on table: I was raised by Normal Pessimist parents (self-made immigrants) and respect Normal Pessimism but don’t always like it; I’m a Weird Optimist by nature, but I’ve flirted with Normal Optimism on and off; most of my friends are Weird Pessimists.

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      Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin 27 Aug 2019
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      I think the best hope for the future is probably the Weird Pessimist/Weird Optimist/Normal Pessimist alliance.

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        2. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin 27 Aug 2019
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          Normal Optimism is Winnerism. Support whoever is winning, believe whatever gives you relative social power. Follow and amplify incentive gradients. Of course it’s healthy to want to win — and a fair critique of Weird Pessimists that they have an unhealthy resentment of success.

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        3. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin 27 Aug 2019
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          But throwing all resources into a zero-sum conflict destroys the possibility of any future for humans.

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        4. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin 27 Aug 2019
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          There’s a Normal Optimist thing that’s *just* being supportive and encouraging, without trying to take resources or status away from anybody else, and I think it’s mostly good, just unlikely to be very influential.

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        2. Tyrrell McAllister‏ @tmcal77 27 Aug 2019
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          Could normal optimists help by repackaging and marketing weird optimism to normal optimists/pessimists? Normal pessimists are important for maintaining safety, but do they help to bring a better future beyond helping to keep the wheels on the train long enough?

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        3. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin 27 Aug 2019
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          Yes, normal pessimism is a very important component in, say, putting a man on the moon. Engineering needs familiarity with Murphy’s Law.

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        1. Robin Ranjit Singh Chauhan‏ @robinc 27 Aug 2019
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          I would guess that both weirds have many subtypes which have very different characteristics.

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        2. Crooked Timbre‏ @Timber_22 27 Aug 2019
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          Places & spaces where I’ve witnessed (first or second hand) this alliance/confluence of all three: • @rushkoff ‘s @teamhumanshow • Burning Man (cliché almost at this point, but I think the above three elements do mix there generatively) • some corners of Twitter

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          • a lot of folks drawn to the schelling point/ strange attractor that is @leashless • a whole slew of podcasts

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