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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jul 19
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    There is no good word for this, but it’s the opposite of paternalism, where you pretend that obvious naifs desperately looking for mentors are competent adults, flatter their adulthood conceits, and tacitly encourage their natural tendencies that lead to postures useful to you.

    1:25 PM - 19 Jul 2020
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    • Nancy Total Landscaping and Podium Rentals Jens muddletoes Karen Karenina 🇺🇸💎Proud American Space Dude💎🇺🇸 ImRobot AlMcTav Matt H
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      2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jul 19
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        In the worst case it’s grooming into radicalism. You don’t need to even actively encourage it. Just not discourage it. If it’s a youthful tendency that would otherwise provoke pushback, mere lack is encouragement.

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jul 19
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        Something deeply disingenuous and yucky about this passive-aggressive grooming. I much prefer open persuasion/evangelism or even undisguised (but non-coercive) paternalism. This conjuring trick of “you’re an adult (choose this path where I’m avoiding challenging you)” is yucky.

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      4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jul 19
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        Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Willy

        Exactly, in the sexual predation sense. It’s a pretty strong charge to level so I’m reluctant to use the word in an unqualified way. But that’s the rhyme.https://twitter.com/willyintheworld/status/1284947702447517696?s=21 …

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        Intellectual grooming?
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      5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jul 19
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        Basically, if you’re 35 plus, do not encourage in much younger people, tendencies/dispositions you yourself acquired over a long period, with adequate checks and balances from counter-tendencies. It’s somewhere between irresponsible and malicious.

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      6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jul 19
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        It’s like teaching takeoffs while withholding the knowledge that landings are far harder to master. You’re setting your padawan up for a crash landing, not shortening their learning curves.

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      7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jul 19
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        Everybody defaults into de facto teacherhood simply by virtue of growing older. Younger people will take cues from you even if you don’t craft them. But you have a responsibility to avoid modeling lessons your life doesn’t actually stand for or validate. Primum non boxers.

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      8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jul 19
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        It is fine to abdicate this responsibility consciously (not hard, just say “don’t take your cues from me, your circumstances aren’t the same”) but if you don’t, you’re more responsible for what others pick up from you than you might think.

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      9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jul 19
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        Heh people should write anti-biographies. “Lessons not to draw from my life or things I say and do because of invisible special circumstances, luck, and hidden incentives shaping how I appear to you”

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      2. Willy‏ @Willyintheworld Jul 19
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        Replying to @vgr

        Intellectual grooming?

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      3. of arms and the devilman i sing‏ @swimming_blerd Jul 19
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        Replying to @Willyintheworld @vgr

        ⬆️⬆️

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