The happy comparison is useful, because if we started a club based on being happy and called it the Smiling Dark Web, and wrote articles about it, people would rightly cringe and be confused.
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So, is it "I know it when I see it" or are people only IDW if they voluntarily self-identify as such?
You'll see some variability in the way people apply the label -- just as you do for e.g. "rationalists" and "effective altruists." I tend to think of both a little differently depending on context
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No, I find "cringe-inducing" cringe-inducing. It's the idiotic terms mean girls use when they're tired of calling people they don't like "creepy"
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