2019 resolution: "let's make things boring". "The opposite of every great truth is also a great truth" -- Niels Bohr (?) "You learn most in direction of maximal interestingness" is a great truth. "You learn most in direction of maximal boringness" is also a great truth.
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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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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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If you successfully do these 8 things, it will become part of background social infrastructure that is self-regulating, auto-socializing etc. It will also drain all the culture-war energy out of the behavior and any counter-behaviors. Suck the air out, starve the flames
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