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I’ve been saying this in private for a couple of years now — any institution vulnerable to Woke takeover should probably be abandoned to it. Salvage is not possible. Build alternatives anew. Bad Listener destruction is a power-trip drug that resists de-addiction.
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I think "having people treat you nicely and having a good reputation" is now just a 50% harder skill. Social presence is simply another class of institutions to which the principle applies. I see more people who manage to thread that needle well today than 3-4 years ago.
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I feel like part of the problem is that you need to build a social presence that is (pardon my Taleb) antifragile: It's very easy to have people treat you nicely and have a good reputation by people pleasing and that works great until it suddenly very majorly doesn't.
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This is actually a key difference between the space you've created around yourself and rationalists... SSC kerfuffle suggests to me that rationalists actually have higher tolerance for conflict than they think they do. Postrats might just be nonviolent rationalists.
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I guess there's also two axes here: Conflict tolerance and conflict skill. Two are correlated but not perfectly. e.g. I'm pretty good at conflict but honestly would mostly prefer not to be and try to avoid it unless I need it for boundary setting.
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